Chapter 553

The table was laden with exquisite food usually seen only on television. Each dish would cost Willa at least two months' salary.

"Hahaha! Willa, you've grown so much since I last saw you!"

A middle-aged man with a potbelly, sparse hair, and a warm smile rose to greet her. He wore a loose, faded suit over a white shirt, but his wrist sported the latest Vacheron Constantin watch, and his feet were clad in expensive Italian leather shoes.

His gaze lingered on Willa's face and chest, and a glint of appreciation shone in his otherwise murky eyes.

"You've really blossomed into a beautiful woman!"

Willa, who had been scrawny as a child, now had a strikingly curvy figure.

She immediately lowered her head respectfully. "Hello, Uncle Dominic."

The man was Dominic Hunt, the influential governor of Aston State. He had once been an obscure mid-level official in Centropolis, rising slowly through the ranks. Thanks to his connections with a powerful figure in the Imperial Capital, his caree