Everyone was shocked. There was light at the end of the tunnel, after all.

Lilian didn’t suffer behind bars, and she even got 1.5 million dollars as compensation. Safe to say, the losses of her shop were sufficiently repaid.

Lilian was proud about it; the more miserable she was when she in jail, the cockier she got when she was bailed out.

Thinking of the second-in-command respectfully apologizing to her, she felt even more refreshed.

Simon was exhilarated as well. He told Lilian everything that had happened, then looked at Silas with admiration.

“There’s something you don’t know, honey. Without Silas’s help, you wouldn’t be able to get out that easily. Mr. Bolton wouldn’t even compensate you with that much money in the first place.”

“You probably still would be in jail at this point!”

“Aunt Anderson’s still stuck behind bars, and she’s not getting any compensation either.”

Simon patted Silas’s shoulder gratefully.

“What a good kid.”

He was filled with admiration, thinking th