บท 193: K: Revitalizing

The current King of Eks Corp wanted to rub the spot above her nose, between her eyebrows, where the muscles fought her control and tried to show her frown. She wished that things could be simple, but she was beginning to suspect that each day of the next fifty years was going to be very much like this. 

The irony here was that the situation might have been simpler if the woman in front of her had actually been working either with or against her brother. Gwendolyn, head of the Nebel family or not, had rather obviously been unaware of everything that the head of Nova Corp had been up to.

"My brother was NOT a criminal!" Gwendolyn protested vehemently.

"He was pretty good at not getting caught," Rafaela agreed neutrally. "Although your predecessor apparently paid off a number of minor charges that he collected in his youth, so I am sure that practice helped."