That was what people like Bobby were used to, dishing out threats and harassment every day until they were paid. Wilbur turned to Kory. "Come on, you've got a life to live. There will be a way to fix this. You just need to be brave." "Could I please know who you do for work, sir?" Kory's wife asked carefully. Wilbur smiled. "You don't need to know about that. All you need to know is that your situation is hardly a problem to me." His confidence seemed to give Kory and his wife a little more courage, and they nodded furiously. Wilbur beckoned for them to follow him, walking over to the Sealake Island parking lot. Everyone got into Wilbur's car and drove off into the city. Not long after, Wilbur stopped at the entrance of a bank. They all got out, and Wilbur led the way. Kory and his family tailed behind him, visibly cowering. "What's the matter?" Wilbur frowned. Kory looked immensely forlorn. "The guards won't let us in. They'll beat us, too." "Just follow me. I'
Wilbur frowned at Belinda. "Well, I'd just like to take a look at the loan contract and the signatures on it and make a copy of it so that we can run it through handwriting authentication. How is that causing any trouble?" "Sir, this is a bank. We can't just give you access to anything you want to see," Belinda said, casting a disdained glance at Wilbur. Wilbur asked, "Don't they have the right to that, even as the borrowers themselves?" "You can go about this legally, but I can very well tell you now that it's not going to affect the repayment demands," said Belinda coldly. Wilbur felt a strange burst of rage in his chest. Legal procedures would take no less than a year, and even then it was unclear if anything would be settled. On top of that, Kory and his family were hardly powerful enough to go against the bank at all. Either way, nothing was going to come out of resorting to legal procedures. The repayment demand would not stop in the meantime, either. Kory and his
Taking these people down was just a piece of cake. Right after Wilbur left, Belinda went over to the president's office. Jerm Donner, the bank president, a rotund man in his fifties, was currently flipping through a document. He frowned at the sight of Belinda. "Why didn't you knock?" "C'mon, Mister Donner!" Belinda cooed, closing the door. She sat down next to Jerm, clutching his arm and rubbing her chest against it. "That Kory Hunlip's back again, this time with a young man who threatened us to have everything they need prepared in three days or someone's going to jail!" Jerm put the document down at once, his expression growing solemn. He knew about this loan better than anyone else. Someone had stolen Kory and his wife's identities to take out the loan. This thief was someone Jerm himself knew and had profited off of greatly in the past. Now, however, the thief had run off. The loan remained, however, and there was nothing to do but have Kory bear the loan. Je
Wilbur brought Kory and his family to his room, sitting them down. Kory and his wife looked pretty nervous. They had only just found out that Wilbur owned such a huge place and had so much money. Neither of them would have been able to tell. "Don't look so anxious. I'll have someone settle you down somewhere here for the next few days until this is settled," Wilbur smiled. Yet Kory still looked antsy. "We don't know how to thank you, Mister Penn. If this really gets solved, you'll have saved all of my family." "Yes, Mister Penn. Please help us," his wife sobbed. Wilbur said, "I told you I'm taking care of this, so I'll be sure to get to the bottom of it. Don't you worry." Kory and his wife nodded. They sat there with their child in their arms, unsure what to do next. Wilbur gave it some thought and called for Lily. Lily showed up, bowing politely to Wilbur. "You were looking for me, sir?" "Yes, I was. Get Mister Hunlip and his family settled in a room. You'll take car
"Is anything the matter, then?" Wilbur asked. Jayen said, "I'm here for Kory Hunlip. Heard he's here now." "That's right. He's a guest of mine, you can talk to me." "Yeah? Well, are you going to pay his debt for him too, then?" Jayen asked in a deep voice. Wilbur chuckled. "Whoever applied for that loan would be paying." Jayen tossed a stack of documents onto the table. "Here's all the proof that you need to know. He applied for the loan himself." "Really? Why do I feel like he didn't?" "The truth's not going to change just because you want it to. I'm telling you, I've dealt with bastards like you before who refuse to pay up! Don't make me give you a hard time," Jayen spat. Wilbur's expression darkened. "I was thinking of giving you a chance, but it seems that I've overestimated all of you. Well, since you think you're above the law, I'm going to have to give you a hard time too." "Give me a hard time?" Jayen snorted. "I've yet to meet anyone in Seechertown who dared
A brief silence later, Jayen spoke up nervously. "I-I'm just here for repayment demands following a loan contract with the bank! We're a legal company here." "You? Legal?" Wilbur snorted. "So you can push people to the brink of death just because you're a legal company?" "That's not exactly what I'm after!" Jayen broke out into a sweat, doing his best to explain himself. Just then, however, Wilbur said, "I don't believe that you didn't know there was something wrong with this loan." "I really don't know anything!" Jayen cowered at once, devoid of any of the cockiness from before. Wilbur said, "Okay, sure. We'll just wait for the bank president to get here, then. I'm sure he'll tell the truth, and we can get to the bottom of this." Elsa chuckled, waving her hand. The Special Forces agents kicked Jayen's men to the floor, shouting at them to put their hands behind their hands. Bobby and the rest were scared out of their wits, trembling as they complied. They were more t
Jerm's soul almost left his body. He had never expected him to get into trouble all of a sudden. Jerm was one of the higher-ups and had so many connections. How had no one at least given him a heads-up? Belinda was also scared out of her wits. She had worked together with Jerm all these years, leaving finance to enter the banking industry. The two of them had been involved in a great deal of terrible, terrible acts. She was going to spend the rest of her life in jail if she was investigated. Belinda's chest heaved as she sat in the meeting room, sweat pouring down her back. Jayen's face paled even more at the sight of Jerm being brought in, staring at Wilbur in disbelief. Jayen had come to realize that he had severely underestimated just what this young man was capable of. He had even gotten people from the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection. Just then, Wilbur got to his feet and walked over to Jayen. "Which one of you wants to go first?" Jayen opened
Kory and his wife's chests lurched at those words. It was unclear to them just who was being unfair here. The officers hauled Jayen onto a chair, pressing him down by force. Jayen was black and blue all over, with blood dribbling out of his nostrils as he slumped against the chair, heaving in pain. Bobby and the other men nearly wet their pants, collapsing to the ground as some of them even broke into tears. At last, Belinda coughed up the truth. It turned out that Jerm had worked together with a businessman to steal Kory's information to take out a loan in his name for eighty million dollars. Both Jerm and the businessman had split the money equally. Eventually, when the loan was due, Jerm had Belinda fake the loan procedures to make this look like a case of bad debt. They had done similar things in the past before as well, only for bank security to grow stricter in the next three years. Faking a case of bad debt was not going to work. That was why they had hunted