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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
Chapter 384
At that moment, Rose’s father stood before Alice with a hesitation that had not been there earlier, because the pride that had once made it easy for him to criticize, judge, and dismiss the man standing in front of him had been stripped away by everything he had witnessed that night, leaving behind nothing except embarrassment, regret, and the difficult realization that he had been wrong about Alice from the very beginning. For several seconds, he did not speak. The cold night air moved quietly around them, carrying the distant sound of emergency vehicles still passing through the city after the gate incident, while the lights from the house behind them spilled across the front path and illuminated both men. Rose’s father looked older than he had earlier that evening. The confidence with which he had once questioned Alice had faded, replaced by the uncomfortable awareness that Alice had every reason not to forgive him. Alex watched him in silence. Then, after allowing the unco
Chapter 283
At that moment, Rose’s father stood before Alice with a hesitation that had not been there earlier, because the pride that had once made it easy for him to criticize, judge, and dismiss the man standing in front of him had been stripped away by everything he had witnessed that night, leaving behind nothing except embarrassment, regret, and the difficult realization that he had been wrong about Alice from the very beginning. For several seconds, he did not speak. The cold night air moved quietly around them, carrying the distant sound of emergency vehicles still passing through the city after the gate incident, while the lights from the house behind them spilled across the front path and illuminated both men. Rose’s father looked older than he had earlier that evening. The confidence with which he had once questioned Alice had faded, replaced by the uncomfortable awareness that Alice had every reason not to forgive him. Alex watched him in silence. Then, after allowing the unco
Chapter 382
At that moment, Rose’s father stood before Alice with a hesitation that had not been there earlier, because the pride that had once made it easy for him to criticize, judge, and dismiss the man standing in front of him had been stripped away by everything he had witnessed that night, leaving behind nothing except embarrassment, regret, and the difficult realization that he had been wrong about Alice from the very beginning. For several seconds, he did not speak. The cold night air moved quietly around them, carrying the distant sound of emergency vehicles still passing through the city after the gate incident, while the lights from the house behind them spilled across the front path and illuminated both men. Rose’s father looked older than he had earlier that evening. The confidence with which he had once questioned Alice had faded, replaced by the uncomfortable awareness that Alice had every reason not to forgive him. Alex watched him in silence. Then, after allowing the unco
Chapter 381
At that moment, Rose’s father stood before Alice with a hesitation that had not been there earlier, because the pride that had once made it easy for him to criticize, judge, and dismiss the man standing in front of him had been stripped away by everything he had witnessed that night, leaving behind nothing except embarrassment, regret, and the difficult realization that he had been wrong about Alice from the very beginning. For several seconds, he did not speak. The cold night air moved quietly around them, carrying the distant sound of emergency vehicles still passing through the city after the gate incident, while the lights from the house behind them spilled across the front path and illuminated both men. Rose’s father looked older than he had earlier that evening. The confidence with which he had once questioned Alice had faded, replaced by the uncomfortable awareness that Alice had every reason not to forgive him. Alex watched him in silence. Then, after allowing the unco
Chapter 380
At that moment, without wasting another second after hearing the words that Rose's father had just spoken with so much hesitation and shame, Alice looked at him carefully, allowing the silence between them to stretch long enough that Rose's father began to feel uncertain about what Alice might say next, and then, after that uncomfortable pause had made it clear that Alice was not going to respond quickly or easily, Alice finally spoke, his voice calm but filled with the weight of everything that had been done to him over the months and years he had been connected to Rose's family. "In as much as I do not really want to help you," Alice began slowly, "in as much as I feel that you have looked down on me far more than enough, in as much as you have disrespected me repeatedly, in as much as you have made me look like a fool on multiple occasions, in as much as you did not see me as someone who was worthy enough to stand beside your daughter, in as much as you did not consider me to be so
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