Seeing that some of the Turnbull blackguards were becoming hesitant, Tamon quickly moved to seize the moral high ground instead.

"Quit being stubborn, Vicky!" he bellowed. "Our family will fall if we don't surrender Frank Lawrence! I don't mind letting Glen keep his leadership, but I won't forgive Frank! We can't afford to bear the crime of killing a direct heir of the Lionhearts! What are we going to do if Simon Lionheart storms our homes with his martial elites?! We'd all be dead, all because of that scumbag!"

"No, we aren't that weak," Vickly calmly retorted. "You're human, Granduncle. Quit being an ingrate-you look worse than animals."

Then, she whipped out a knife from under her bed, pressing it to her neck. "Frank has saved me and our family repeatedly. If you want to take him, you'd have to do it over my dead body!"

radical retort, especially when she called him less than an animal. "You're beyond saving! Don't you see what's important here?! Are you sentencing all of us to death over

find someone better given your disposition. I think Titus Lionheart

and resume your engagement?" Wes added. "Everyone will be

only left Vicky

turning and pointing at Frank. "Do none of you remember who's the one who saved every last one of you during the annual dinner?

kept murdering our own, while Lionhearts claimed that they failed to stop her. You all know the truth about that now, and we would've been wiped out if

helping-you scumbag turned against Frank instead, ready to scapegoat your savior to curry our enemy's favor! Do

executives scowling, and most of them turned toward Tamon, who was clearly

And having worked as a businessman his whole life, he

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