Ivy walked out of her room drying her hair with a small towel in her hand.“Who are you calling?” she asked cautiously.“Ivy Anderson. Do you remember her from the antique store?” Kevin smiled and said.“I wanted her to help me find books on rare gems.”“I didn’t expect you to be awake, making calls. Where did you put that bracelet anyway?” she said in surprise.Kevin brought the necklace out from his pocket.The bracelet was lying beautifully in his hand.“It’s magnificent!” officer Helene exclaimed.“Do you want to take a look?” Kevin said as he stretched his hand to her.Officer Helene started to reach forward and then yawned, “You know? I think I should head back to my room now. I really need to rest. Goodnight!”Then she headed back to her bedroom and closed the door.Kevin could hear her click the lock of the door behind.He was starting to doze off again when he heard Ivy’s voice, “Kevin! Are you still there?”He picked the phone up sleepily, “Hello, I’m here. What did you find

“Is there anything you need our help with?” Eliana volunteered.“Not yet, thanks. We’ll be very happy to join forces with you later but we’ve all suffered a lot lately. You, Enoch and Antoine should take some time to help your companies recover.” Kevin said thoughtfully.Eliana and the others nodded in agreement again when they heard him say this.A few Veridonia companies hadn’t survived the financial battle that had just ripped through the economy.Three days later, the whole city of Veridonia was buzzling with the latest news.The Stainless Hotel broke ground with much fanfare.The ceremony was attended by Collins Coke, the owner of the White Field hotel, Eliana Wright, the president of the West Veridonia International group, Antoine Bridge, the owner of the Sparkling bar, Enoch Spain, a leader in a private security industry and Johnson Anne, the chief of staff of Williams Media.Everyone in Veridonia knew that these people had helped the city to survive the recent economic crisis.

As they settled in, Lily suggested that she and Kevin should go hunting in the woods but Shantel Blare asked the families to play high stakes game.Every family would chip in ten million dollars.Whoever caught the most fish in the game would win the pot.Lily finally agreed to let the Jones family participate too.Soon, the teams were decided.There were Kevin and Lily from the Jones family, Ivy and her brother Blake, representing the Andersons, Shane Blare and Officer Helene from the Blare family and there were six other families too.“I’m not launching to hunting or fishing so, I’ll be the judge.” Neo Blare said as he looked at his watch.“It’s 9:00am and you all have three hours to catch as many fishes as you can. Be back here by noon. Good luck to all of you!”Seeing that everyone had already started to move, Lily immediately pulled on Kevin’s sleeve and nudge him, “Let’s head up that way, into the woods!”“Don’t panic.” Kevin said very calmly.“We just spent ten million dollars!

“Hi! My name is George Steel. I could certainly use a friend like you.” the man said.Then he held out his hand to Kevin,“My name is Kevin.” He said as they shook hands.After all the things he had put up with the Jones family and their friends, it was nice to see someone treat him well.A lot of them were jealous to see George being so friendly to Kevin but what Kevin didn’t know was that George was the only heir to the Steel family business.His grandfather Dan Steel, had arrived in Veridonia fifty years ago and grown his business from the ground up with his hard work.Up until now, the Steel family’s holdings include some legitimate business and lots of entertainment facilities.They also have a strong reputation in Veridonia underworld.Nowadays, Dan Steel no longer cares about the family business so he transferred his authority to George.If Lorenzo and Archer respected the man.“I’m really lucky to be friends with George.” Shane muttered to himself.Nobody was a good enough coo

As long as George wouldn’t hold it against them and Kevin could do what he wanted, they had no issues at all.Lily was stunned to hear this.Then she remembered how Ivy had trusted Kevin in the antiques shop even though she still had doubts about her husband and now George is trusting Kevin with his wife’s life even though he’d only known him for less than three hours.Lily had been married to Kevin for three years and still doubted him.“Maybe I really don’t understand him!” Lily thought to herself.Then George asked Kevin, “Now, what are we going to do with these plants?”Kevin took the plants from George’s hands and set them away as the doctor continued to treat Marine.“I need to go over to the chef’s station to make an herbal remedy that will help her recover more quickly.” Kevin said calmly.“You know how to make herbal medicine!?” George