Chapter 179

Vivienne's fingers clenched tightly around her phone, her knuckles turning white. "What was that? Did you just say Spencer was arrested?" Morgan drawled wryly, "Come now, Vivienne, don't tell me you haven't caught up with the news." "What happened to Spencer?" Vivienne demanded when Morgan didn't cut to the chase. She was so anxious that her voice rose in pitch. Morgan knew better than to bait her, considering the gravity of the situation. "Ms. Moore, you should know that the Goodhalls come from a long line of scholars and wield a good amount of influence in Sanvia. However, as times move on, scholarly families are slowly losing out to capitalism and businessmen. "The Goodhalls are still influential, but not as they'd been before. The Holts, for example, wouldn't have gotten an audience with Mr. Goodhall Senior 20 years back, let alone be in the same league as the Goodhalls." Morgan might be blunt, if not outright feckless with his words, but being condescending and arrogant was n