Chapter 169 Symbiosis

• My meeting with Alaric at the Savant Teahouse ended on a sour note that day. When we left, he even deliberately pulled out his phone and pressed it to his ear, then snapped into the line, "Cut the power!"
• Nylah shuddered when she heard this, and she was trembling so badly that she nearly slipped off the stairs. I quickly reached out to steady her and turned to glare at Alaric. From that moment onward, our war with Hotham Group began.
• We got to the parking lot, and as I drove, I could tell that Nylah was greatly upset. We cruised down the road that curved around the ocean as she wordlessly stared out at the waves in the distance and the crowd that was frolicking on the beach. She bit her lower lip and finally said, "Annon, sometimes compromise is the best thing we can do. We could have taken President Hotham's offer, because nothing else matters more than keeping Papillon alive, regardless of who the owner is. Why did you have to be so hard-headed about this?"