He held up his own iron key.
Phupha’s blood turned cold. A bastard brother? No. Worse. A fighter . The kind of man who ate glass for breakfast and called pain a massage.
Phupha had scoffed. “A riddle? My father ran a shipping empire, not a scavenger hunt.”
Phupha laughed bitterly. “Sentimental old fool. That box contains the deed to the entire eastern docks. I’m not building anything with a back-alley brawler and an orphanage director.”
Win: “I don’t want the box. I don’t want money. Your father paid for my sister’s surgery when no one else would. He asked for nothing. But before he died, he sent me this key and said… ‘When the three of you break, you’ll finally build.’”
He held up his own iron key.
Phupha’s blood turned cold. A bastard brother? No. Worse. A fighter . The kind of man who ate glass for breakfast and called pain a massage.
Phupha had scoffed. “A riddle? My father ran a shipping empire, not a scavenger hunt.”
Phupha laughed bitterly. “Sentimental old fool. That box contains the deed to the entire eastern docks. I’m not building anything with a back-alley brawler and an orphanage director.”
Win: “I don’t want the box. I don’t want money. Your father paid for my sister’s surgery when no one else would. He asked for nothing. But before he died, he sent me this key and said… ‘When the three of you break, you’ll finally build.’”
