Chapter 39
"I did not realize the conditions were quite so—" Alaric started carefully.
"Of course you didn't realize," Luca said, shaking his head, voice rising with genuine indignation now. "Because you're never here, are you? You just collect the rent and let your tenants suffer in silence. Do you know how many buildings you said you own? Twenty? Twenty buildings, and you can't be bothered to fix one leaky ceiling for the people actually paying to live in it?"
"I assure you, I will look into—"
"You should be ashamed," Luca continued, entirely unstoppable now, clearly channeling every bit of frustration he'd apparently been saving up on Sonam's behalf for months. "People like you, hoarding all that wealth, twenty buildings, probably more money than you know what to do with, and you ca
