"It's because I still consider your family to be close friends..."
Terenza lightly opened her designer fan and slowly waved it before herself.
"...that I generously gave you an easier path to repay the debt you owe me."
She spoke as though she were the victim.
As though she had been the one wronged.
"And now..."
She looked toward Gloria with a disappointed expression that felt completely fake.
"...you're treating my kindness with nothing but ingratitude."
Lucy quietly narrowed her eyes.
Standing behind Ezra...
She couldn't believe the shameless confidence with which the Baroness spoke.
The woman had openly manipulated four Baron Houses into an impossible debt.
Yet...
She walked into another family's estate without the slightest hint of guilt.
Instead...
She behaved as though everything had happened naturally.
Almost as though House Miles should be thanking her.
How can someone twist the truth so easily...?
Lucy silently wondered.
Beside Blake...
