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!"

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

Quentin reasoned as well. "There are plenty of fish in the sea, and you'll find someone better given your disposition. I think Titus Lionheart

your engagement?" Wes added. "Everyone will be happy when

Titus only left

of you remember who's the one who saved every last one of you during the annual dinner? Do you think you'd still be

and shaking her head, she chuckled coolly. "No, I guess you've forgotten everything. Three years-for three years, South Sea Crow 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

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

and executives scowling, and most of them turned toward

shame and morals. And having worked as a businessman his whole life, he could not

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