Chapter 310 A Bidding War for Leases

• Grace clenched the hem of her dress in a white‑knuckled grip.
• Cyril Nikolaou pressed his advantage, voice booming, “We were going to celebrate you. But now? You lost our Nikolaou family’s most prized treasure! Grace, that’s the ‘Tripod of Tripods,’ worth 200 thousand! Your mall’s got a bunch of security guards, and they’re all useless! Bottom line, you have to pay up! And I seriously doubt your work ethic. You put that piece of trash Cyrus in as Captain of security. No wonder this happened!”
• The CEOs who’d come to congratulate them all frowned and started whispering.