Luther pursed his lips and said coldly, "I saw fifteen million dollars, so it's fifteen million dollars. If you can't afford it, why don't you compensate me with the house you own in this community?"
This was an upscale residential district in central DC in a prime location, and a house here could easily fetch a price of tens of millions of dollars. Luther had asked for such a huge sum of money only because he saw that William was a resident here. Asking for so much in compensation, he clearly wanted to make William lose all his assets and his house.
This way, he would be able to chase away the family that his wife and child hated and also get a house worth tens of millions of dollars for free. At the same time, he could give the onlookers a warning and deter them from provoking him and his family in the future.
This wasn't the first time Luther had done such a thing.