Chapter 285

“That’s not happening. I need to be in the meeting room with you. I have to set the record straight.”

“Quit it.”

The man raised his hand and stopped Mona by physically blocking her access to the COC meeting room. The sly foxes could be a handful. As a man, Thaddeus could not allow his woman to walk right into danger.

“I’m not fooling around.”

While no one was looking, Mona bent over, snuck from under Thaddeus’s arm, and bravely moved ahead.

For a woman to barge into the meeting room, the room full of oldies was stunned. Their full attention was on Mona.

Mona was getting cold feet as she never put herself in such a situation. Drawing a deep breath, she quickly pulled herself together.

She glanced at the imposing old folks of the four influential families and calmly uttered, “I am the cause of the coastal lockdown, so I should be here. The responsibility for whatever consequences should not only fall on Thaddeus’s shoulders, but mine as well.”

Dumbstruck, the group of old