Chapter 65

Third Person POV Hearing that number, it wasn't just Jeremy who went pale. Freddy, Liam, and the others at the table all froze. Back in the early 2000s, three million dollars wasn't a small sum. "Mr. Chesson, that's no small amount," Jeremy said as he lit a cigarette and took a hard drag, clearly weighing his options. Over the years, the Ford family had made far more than three million from Stonebrook's cemetery operations. But coughing up that much cash at once for a construction project? He wasn't about to agree on impulse. His plan had always been to start with small projects, tens of thousands at most, work his way up, build some stability, then take on something big. But Tommy had gone straight to three million, and that number genuinely scared them. "Are you not interested, Jerome?" "That's not what I mean at all," Jeremy said quickly. "It's just that the amount is huge, and we need to think it through carefully." Tommy laughed as he lit a cigarette. "Makes sense. The pro