Life After Prison by Silencieux (PDF) novel Chapter 26

Chapter 26 

Blade’s lip twitched a few times. His expression became gloomy and a murderous aura began to surge all around him. “The ignorant ones are always the bravest! How dare you rebuff a gesture from the Draco Hall’s second-in-command!” 

Severin smiled coldly and shot back, “I don’t care if the first-in-command is here! I’m not going anywhere today unless I get my forty thousand back!”* 

“Have you completely lost it, Severin? Apologize to him!” Diane was so anxious that she was on the brink of tears! Losing a hand would be better than losing a life, yet he remaiend just as impudent as he always was! 

“Do you see it now, Diane? He’s still thinking about money at this kind of time! I honestly think that being poor made him crazy enough to provoke Blade!” Megan said, then added with a snicker, You’d be better off coming back with us and considering Edward. One and a half million is a very generous offer!” 

Diane shot Megan an irked glare. “Don’t mention that name to me again!” Edward was a name that never failed to trigger Diane’s anger. In fact, the Shanahans had been pressuring her to marry Edward five years ago! They pestered her day in day out, all because the Horsfields were a second -tier upper-class family, and they were the most likely to become a first-tier upper-class family. 

The Shanahans wanted her to marry Edward because then they could associate themselves with someone who was rich and powerful. Diane was averse, disgusted even, with the idea. She did not want love to become a mere business transaction. That was the reason she decided to go drinking one fateful night.