Chapter 34
William's face shifted slightly, but before he could dwell on it, Edward's calm voice broke the silence. “Keep going.”
Just then, Alice finished buttoning her shirt and took a couple steps back.
William cleared his throat and started, “The ones stirring up trouble at the scene have been handed over to the police already. Shouldn't take long to identify them.”
“But, the person actually behind it... that's not gonna be easy to trace.”
If it were just angry bystanders, they'd be speaking up for the victim’s family. But going out of their way to incite conflict between the family and GrandVerse? That had ‘someone pulling strings’ written all over it. Clearly, someone wanted to drag GrandVerse through the mud from the beginning.
Alice frowned slightly, thinking aloud. “Could it be Horizon Group? They lost the bid for this land by just a million. Now with a scandal that could shake GrandVerse’s rep, I doubt they’d let it slide.”
Horizon Group was based in Evergreen, a century-old firm that h

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