บท 204: In A Bid For Total Transparency.

Edvard's words were directed to the other two Great family heads as he realized that not only had Hal gotten to them, he had taken away Hector's weakened body and should the Mayor regain his good health, then of all the Great families, only the Krasts would be free of Hal's clutches.

He looked once at the young man with a face that should not exist and the woman he had set his heart on in his arms and could not help but wonder;

What moment was it exactly that the Boy toy surpassed him so much?

Ford sighed as he could understand the despairing look on Edvard's face and would have loved to put in an input when he thought better of it once he remembered that he was now at the Deadline Hal had given him to make a decision.

As such he had his own issues and could not truly be bothered with Edvard's despairing discovery.