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.

He

climbed up onto the table again-like a man who didn't care whose house he was

stood tall in the center of the hall, ready to speak like a man standing before a

of the Wolfsbane name seems ready

face, then raised his hand toward the Baroness sitting

who carried your bloodline through fire and still stands unbroken. Yet none of you can see it. You call her a senile old woman, a fool chasing

way Alex said it made her feel like she was being slapped and praised in the

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

Sofina tries to clean it up, you laugh at her? You should just change your name to Asshole Bella. All you ever do

Before she could speak, Alex had already cut her off, not giving her a chance to

"And you-Beatrix. The

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

that—but before she

suits you. And

doesn't 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 halls and fight

wife's skirts, trembling

His voice cut through the tension like a whip. "And you,

The woman flinched.

Wolfsbane name. She's 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

spat them in everyone's

human skin. A disgrace to your own blood. When Baroness Wolfsbane tells you to die, you're supposed to

bring honor back to your

up to take that burden, you laugh at her. You tear her down.

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