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Chapter 388
At that moment, Alex looked directly at Sebastian with an expression that managed to convey something close to genuine curiosity mixed with a kind of tired patience, the way a person might look at someone who has just asked them to explain an obvious fact for the third time, and when Alex spoke, his voice carried none of the deference that Sebastian had clearly expected to hear in response to his question about whether Alex knew who he was."What exactly are you talking about?" Alex said, his tone measured but carrying just enough edge to make it clear that he was not intimidated by the question or the man asking it. "Didn't you just mention your name a moment ago? I heard you quite clearly when you introduced yourself as Sebastian, when you announced your rank, when you made it perfectly obvious who you are and what position you believe that grants you in rooms like this one. So why would I need to hear it again from you? I already know who you are."He paused, letting the words sett
Chapter 387
Upon hearing the words that Sebastian had just spoken with all the authority of a man who had spent years watching others shrink in the face of his title and his reputation, Alex looked back at him with an expression that carried neither fear nor aggression, but rather something far more unsettling to a man like Sebastian, which was the calm, unhurried amusement of someone who had already decided that the person standing before them posed no particular threat worth taking seriously.Alex smiled slowly.It was not the smile of a man trying to defuse tension, nor the smile of someone who was nervous and attempting to hide it behind a show of confidence, but rather the genuine, unbothered smile of someone who found the entire situation more interesting than threatening, the way a person might smile when a small dog barks loudly at them from behind a fence, not out of mockery exactly, but out of the simple recognition that the noise was far greater than any actual danger it represented."
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The reaction to these words was immediate and explosive.Several of the sons-in-law seated around the table stiffened visibly, their expressions shifting from mild amusement to genuine outrage, and it was one of them in particular, a broad-shouldered man carrying himself with the unmistakable bearing of someone accustomed to significant authority and respect, who rose from his seat first, his chair scraping loudly against the polished floor as he stood.This man was known among certain circles as a five-star King of War, a title that carried tremendous weight and prestige within the hierarchies that governed the world beyond ordinary society, the kind of designation that marked him as someone with real power, someone who had earned respect through demonstrated strength and capability rather than mere inheritance."What in the world are you talking about?" the man demanded, his voice booming across the room with barely restrained fury. "Are you insulting our father-in-law? Are you stan
Chapter 385
At that moment, the silver-haired man who had first announced the fine leaned back in his chair with the unhurried confidence of someone who had never once had his authority questioned within this circle, and he studied Rose's father for a long moment before responding, his tone carrying the particular condescension of a man explaining something obvious to someone he considered slow to understand it."Well," he said, spreading his hands as though the matter were simple enough for a child to grasp, "the decision has been made. This rule was agreed upon the last time we gathered, quite some time ago now, and if my memory serves me correctly, you were not present that day. You gave some excuse, as you always do, and you did not attend. So tell me, how exactly would you remember that such a rule had been agreed upon, when you were not even in the room when we discussed it?"He let the question hang in the air for a moment, watching Rose's father's face carefully, before continuing."You d
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It was one of these four, a stern-faced man with silver hair and an air of impatience that suggested he did not appreciate having his evening disrupted by delays, who spoke next, his tone shifting from mere amusement into something colder, something more calculated. "Well," he said, folding his hands together on the table in front of him, "since you have been wasting our time, and not just wasting a little of it, but wasting a significant amount of it, you should remember that there is a fine for such behavior. You are aware of this, are you not?" Rose's father blinked, caught off guard by the sudden shift in tone. "You cannot simply keep each and every one of us waiting for you," the man continued, his voice growing firmer with every word. "That is not how this gathering works. You are supposed to pay a fine for wasting our time, and that fine is calculated at ten thousand dollars for every minute you kept us waiting. You arrived ten minutes late, which means the total fine comes t
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Rose's father sat behind the wheel for one more moment, letting the weight of Alice's calm assurance settle over him the way a blanket settles over a man who has been shivering in the cold for far too long, and something in the steadiness of those words, *you have absolutely nothing to worry about, let's go, I have this under control*, loosened a knot in his chest that had been tightening since the moment he first mentioned the gathering to Alice back at the house, so that when he finally spoke again his voice carried a fraction more courage than it had only seconds before. "Well," he said, exhaling slowly, "no problem there. Let's go ahead." He pushed open the car door and stepped out into the cool night air, adjusting his jacket with hands that had steadied considerably, while Alice stepped out from the passenger side with the same unhurried composure he had carried throughout the entire drive, as though the banquet hall glowing ahead of them were nothing more than an ordinary bu
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