Everyone watching thought Elias Vance was too brutal. If he had simply ordered Dexter Hayes's leg broken right here and now, with Marcus Bishop backing him up, that would have been one thing. But instead, he was demanding that the Hayes family do it themselves.
This wasn't just knocking their teeth out. This was forcing them to swallow the shattered pieces with a smile.
"You're... you're heartless!" Dexter's voice trembled as the words spilled out, his face drained of all color.
Chloe Sinclair stood frozen beside him, unable to form a single coherent thought. She had already tasted humiliation at Elias's hands once before, back at the banquet. She knew better than anyone that this man did not make empty threats.
Marcus Bishop's voice cut through the silence like a blade. "I've made mys
