Everyone present wanted to see me humiliated, to see me, like a stray dog, groveling before Selene Frostveil, just as I had four years ago.
I had wanted to leave some dignity for each other, but Selene and her former classmates pressed on relentlessly.
A fake socialite who lived by clinging to the powerful dared to be so arrogant. Since reasoning with him won't work, I'll just have to flip the table!
I scanned the room and coldly uttered a single sentence:
"Ten minutes."
"What ten minutes?"
I ignored Selene and turned to Garrick Pineward.
Garrick glanced at his communicator and bowed to me.
"Young Master Kael, I've informed our lord. He says he'll come to apologize to you personally in ten minutes, accompanied by Darius Ashford."
"By the way, he also said he's willing to exchange a hundred acres of woodland on the border for Selene Frostveil's life."
The room fell into a deathly silence, then erupted in laughter:
"Is this penniless wretch gone mad? He actually said Selene's spouse is coming to apologize to him and even cede a piece of land to him! Do you believe that, hahaha!"
"Yes, of course we believe it! Kael!" "Nightcrest's practically dead, we have to give him some face."