Life After Prison by Silencieux
Chapter 494

Chapter 494

The wealthy merchants standing by the side started gossiping amongst themselves when they realized Severin was, indeed, missing.

In fact, some of the wealthy merchants were inwardly rubbing their hands in glee at the turn of the events as they were jealous of the Shanahans' meteoric rise to success. They had been. waiting for the Shanahans to make one wrong move and were sure no one would be willing to work with them once Valerian had shown his displeasure.

Zachariah must have sensed something was not right and he quickly signaled Sheila to be quiet with his eyes. It took her a while to get what he was hinting but once she did, her face. immediately fell as she lowered her head. It was then she knew she had caused some trouble. 'Looks like Severin is really not here. Otherwise, he would have come out to welcome us," thought Sheila. She recalled how Valerian immediately came to Severin's rescue with just one call and hoped that they would continue to have a good relationship with each other after all the dust had settled on this matter.

Fortunately, Stanley was quick to react. "Mister Valerian, I do apologize. He had a sudden onset of diarrhea and had no choice but to rush to the toilet. We didn't expect you to arrive so early so we didn't ask him to join us."

"Haha, all good, all good," said Valerian with a reassuring smile. He did not really mind one way or another.

The Shanahans sighed with relief when they realized Valerian was not angry at all.

However, at that moment, a car drove in and stopped in an empty field some distance away. Who should alight from the car but Severin?

"Oh shit! I'm done for!" exclaimed Stanley when he saw Severing walking toward them. A second ago he was still mentally patting himself on the back for his quick thinking but Severin's appearance meant that his lies had been fully blown apart.

The crime of lying to Valerian was even worse than the crime of being late.

As expected, one of the wealthy merchants sarcastically pointed out, "Hey, isn't that Severin? When you said he was in the toilet, did you perhaps mean he was in the car?"

"That is Severin alright. Perhaps he was in the toilet outside of the mansion but that can't possibly be. How can a mansion as big as this not have a single toilet inside?" remarked another wealthy merchant quietly.

"Tsk tsk. How brazen of them to lie to Mister Valerian. It's definitely game over for them," said someone else.

Catherine's forehead was slick with sweat. Once again, she had been rendered mute with fright.

Then she quickly blinked at Stanley, and asked, "What's going on here, Stanley? Didn't you say Severin is in the toilet? Why would he be coming in from the outside if that's really the case?" Stanley knew Catherine wanted him swiftly to think up a good excuse to defuse the situation. His mind began to spin rapidly, and it took him a while to finally explain with a sad face, "How should I know, Grandmother? He was the one who told me he would be in the toilet. I'm just

as surprised as any of you to see him getting out of the car."

Then, to make it more believable, he immediately approached Severin and questioned him," Severin, didn't you go to the toilet? How can you only come back from the outside after Mister Valerian arrived ages ago?"

However, Severin was not afraid to offend Valerian at all. He simply smiled and cupped his hands in a salute. "Hello, Mister Valerian. I'm sorry but I had to attend to some urgent matters. I hope you can forgive me for my tardiness."