Chapter Thirty-Two

"Did you all see how that wench humiliated us? He didn't even regard the fact that we are older than she is," Cassius snapped as soon as six of the council members excluding Lionel and Fritz, gathered in Nigel's office. 

"Tell me about it. I almost broke my fingers, trying to control myself from going off at her," Ethan replied, recalling how he hasn't stopped clenching and unclenching his fists. 

He did not expect that Amelia would talk down at them on the very first day of meeting with them. In fact, they had all expected that she'd be slightly intimidated by them but seeing how she spoke to them with so much confidence, she wasn't what they expected at all. 

"You're oddly quiet, Lord Nigel. Usually, I'd expected that you would make the most noise since you