Chapter 1009 Someone in the Shadows (III)

• Madison Sawyer showed her first signs of waking up four or five days after being moved to the VIP ward.
• That day, Emily called Chadwick Fullner to report on their prep for the new store in Yangzhou. That was also the day Chadwick went to Madison’s place and laid everything out, got rattled, and decided he’d scale up no matter what to take on Regal Peaks. The plan had been to open the first batch of five stores, pause, then map the next step. He changed his mind. After keeping the cash reserves they had to keep, he pulled out a big chunk and pushed hard into expansion again. He wanted to grow like wildfire, to prove to Madison’s parents that he didn’t just love her and want to take care of her—he had the guts and the chops to shoulder everything for her.
• Meanwhile, Emily and Chen Qinghe had barely come back at all. City after city, they scouted and set up new stores. She didn’t know exactly what had happened around Chadwick, but she could feel it—his drive to expand was more urgent than ever. So she threw everything she had into backing him up.