Zachary scoffed in response. “The royal forces? Do you really think that would scare me?”

He then pointed his gun at the ceiling and fired several successive shots.

Bang! Bang!

The bullets struck the chandelier on the ceiling, sending crystals raining down.

Just then, the door to the study room burst open, and dozens of armed soldiers rushed into the room. More soldiers stood outside the window of the study room, and all of them trained their guns at Zachary.

Sherlyn entered the room last, flanked by more armed men.

the gun if you want to live, Zachary.” She had a gun pointed at him

you doing?” He had never imagined that his mother would

his mother’s actions represented the Laurents’ declaration of war against the Nacht

wholly unnecessary

you think you could stop me with

ahead. “Such insolence! Even if you’re not scared of our soldiers, there’s still the Lindberg family, and we have Mr. Lindberg’s best

stop it,” Louis

far too long. I pity your ignorance about the evils of

window suddenly crumpled over just as Zachary

the Nacht family stormed into the study

stuttered

home just then, and he immediately

my apology on behalf of my wife; she doesn’t know any better. Our families have been on good terms for

asked, though he kept his piercing gaze on

need to bring death into the equation.” Robert hastily changed tack and offered an olive branch. “Let’s sit down and have a talk over this, shall we? We shouldn’t exchange

a peaceful talk, but Lady Sherlyn

glance that the gun belonged to Sherlyn. He wanted desperately to tell off his wife right then and there, but the urgency of the situation demanded him to first bow to

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