The Almighty Dominance

"I'll get us a deal with the Eden Group," Sofina announcement hit the room like a gunshot.

For a heartbeat, silence. Then the whole hall burst into laughter. Some people laughed so hard they clutched their stomachs, wiping tears from their eyes.

Everyone thought she'd lost her mind. Trying to steal Grandma Wolfsbane's attention with that kind of nonsense?

Foolish. Desperate. Didn't she know how to read the room?

The Wolfsbane family was on thin ice, and the Eden Group wasn't just some local company-it was the largest Group in Winchester.

For a family like theirs, even being noticed by Eden was a miracle. To talk about deals was like a fly demanding a seat at the king's table.

Beatrix smirked, her voice dripping with scorn. "Sofina Scheinwald, do you honestly think you can land a deal with the Eden Group? Keep dreaming. It's impossible for someone like you."

Annabella leaned forward, sneering. "Who do you think you are, Sofina? You think Eden Group belongs to your husband? Your recklessness will drag our family through the mud. You're not even a real Wolfsbane-and yet you dare to use our name like you own it?"

Another relative chimed in, voice sharp. "Annabella's right! If Eden Group turns her away, the whole city will laugh at us!"

Sofina felt her face heat up, blood rushing to her cheeks.

She could feel their eyes-mocking, cruel, pitying.

Her status in the family had never been strong, but now it sank to rock bottom.

She clenched her fists, wishing she could swallow the words back. Why had she listened to Alex? Why did she let him push her into this madness?

Her glare found him.

her eyes, then smiled faintly. He stepped forward, boots tapping against the

a man who didn't care whose house he was

ready to speak like a man standing before a

Wolfsbane

face, then raised his hand

Baroness the Wolfsbane family has ever had-the woman who carried your bloodline through fire and still stands unbroken. Yet none of you can see it.

She liked the sound of support-but the way Alex said it made her feel like she

Annabella. "And you, Annabella-you're the real disgrace here. Your face being thrown out of Eden Group's entrance is

the mud, and now when Sofina tries to clean it up, you laugh at her? You should just change your name to Asshole

a man the family still called a half-slave-was unbearable. Before she could speak, Alex had already cut her off, not giving her a chance to say

"And you-Beatrix. The

She gave you everything-her trust, her pride, her blessings. And this is how you fepay her?

before she

said, voice like a blade. "Call yourself Bastard—it suits you. And your

respect the Baroness's will. He doesn't have the courage to stand at the front when she gives an order. He'd never walk into Eden Group's

hides behind his wife's skirts, trembling while

cut through the tension like

The woman flinched.

the only one with the courage to stand up and got. Yet instead of supporting, her or the Baroness-you just sit there, quiet as stone, doing nothing. You're letting them all rot while you pretend you

burned hotter with every breath. He practically spat them in everyone's faces, showing no mercy,

own blood. When Baroness Wolfsbane tells you to

something greater, to bring honor back to your name, you all turn your backs and crawl into your holes

and brave like Sofina steps up to take that burden, you laugh at her. You tear her down. You're supposed to be family, but you've become graves for each

the Wolfsbane name? You only see it as a curse, a stain you can't wash off. You think Wolfsbane is doomed to crawl at the bottom, disgraced and