The Girlboss Begs For Remarriage

Seeing that some of the Turnbull blackguards were becoming hesitant, Tamon quickly moved to seize the moral high ground instead.

"Quit being stubborn, Vicky!" he bellowed. "Our family will fall if we don't surrender Frank Lawrence! I don't mind letting Glen keep his leadership, but I won't forgive Frank! We can't afford to bear the crime of killing a direct heir of the Lionhearts! What are we going to do if Simon Lionheart storms our homes with his martial elites?! We'd all be dead, all because of that scumbag!"

"No, we aren't that weak," Vickly calmly retorted. "You're human, Granduncle. Quit being an ingrate-you look worse than animals."

Then, she whipped out a knife from under her bed, pressing it to her neck. "Frank has saved me and our family repeatedly. If you want to take him, you'd have to do it over my dead body!"

"Vicky!!!" Tamon was clenching his fists in rage at Vicky's radical retort, especially when she called him less than an animal. "You're beyond saving! Don't you see what's important here?! Are you sentencing all of us to death over some manwhore?!"

you'll find someone better

you apologize and resume your engagement?" Wes added.

Titus only left Vicky

remember, so let me refresh your memory!" she snapped, turning and pointing at Frank. "Do none of you remember who's the one who saved every last one of you during the annual dinner? Do you

you've forgotten everything. Three years-for three years, South Sea Crow kept murdering our own, while Lionhearts claimed that they failed to stop her. You all know the truth about that now, and we would've been

turned against Frank instead, ready to scapegoat your savior to curry our enemy's favor! Do you know no shame?! I could feed a stray with

metaphor left the Turnbull elders and executives scowling, and most of them turned

his age, Tamon had long since given up on shame and morals. And having worked