"What did your father say, Andrew? Tell me. What was so important that it needed more importance than his life?" Sophia forced Andrew to look at her, and the man pressed his lips into a thin line.
He didn't say anything. Didn't know what to say, honestly. He couldn't make sense of what his father said apart from the fact that his father didn't want him to marry Beatrice.
But what did he say about the word 'sister'
Besides, what was the use of stopping him when the deed was already done? Wasn't he with his grandfather earlier and wanted him to marry Beatrice to protect the dignity of the Lloyd's, so that the business wouldn't slip away from their hands?
The more Andrew thought about his father's words, the more hypocritical they sounded when he had practically begged his father to pacify his grandfather so as not force him to marry Beatrice.
"He said it wasn't an accident," Andrew said, and Sophia paused.
