"What is there to worry about?" the old King said slowly, his voice weak and feeble. "He's a businessman. What's wrong with him contacting a bank?"
The development of the banking industry had indeed spurred commercial prosperity. It gave people with creativity or skills but no capital more opportunities to start their own businesses.
A bank loan was much easier to repay than a favor owed to a nobleman.
But this was the first time the Zog Group had ever approached a bank.
The Royal Family had no precise information on what he was planning.
That didn't stop the Prince from assuming the worst about the Zog Group.
He held no personal enmity toward Zog himself. If—no, not if, but *when*—he became King, the Zog Group would remain Sutton's most important commercial organization.
But their positions were different now. Zog was supporting that lowly woman in the Northern Domain, and there was no telling what kind of deal they had struck.
