Chapter 494

The wealthy merchants standing by the side started gossiping amongst themselves when they realized Severin was, indeed, missing. In fact, some of the wealthy merchants were inwardly rubbing their hands in glee at the turn of the events as they were jealous of the Shanahans' meteoric rise to success. They had been waiting for the Shanahans to make one wrong move and were sure no one would be willing to work with them once Valerian had shown his displeasure. Zachariah must have sensed something was not right and he quickly signaled Sheila to be quiet with his eyes. It took her a while to get what he was hinting but once she did, her face immediately fell as she lowered her head. It was then she knew she had caused some trouble. 'Looks like Severin is really not here. Otherwise, he would have come out to welcome us,' thought Sheila. She recalled how Valerian immediately came to Severin's rescue with just one call and hoped that they would continue to have a good relationship with each