As soon as Elijah left both of them, Noah turned his attention to Hermione.
“Hermione, listen to me,” Noah said, his voice carrying frustration and desperation at the same time. “I know things have been wrong. But we’re family. If you don’t step up as chairman, everyone will lose everything.”
“Lose everything?” Hermione repeated as she gave Noah a look of disbelief. “When you took everything away from me, including the company I built, did someone beg for Grandfather Cain like that?”
“Hermione,” Noah called, his tone dangerously low this time. “How long are you going to take all of what we did as an act of not loving you? We did that for your good. Why can’t you see that?!”
“That isn’t for my good, but yours!” Hermione exclaimed, her voice already laced with fury. “And this request of
