"Shut up, Benedicta!" Gabriel snapped, his eyes flashing with a lethal, frozen fury.
Just then, Janella Jakes came walking down the north corridor, holding her designer leather bag. She stopped dead in her tracks, her perfectly arched eyebrows drawing together as she saw her older brother’s explosive rage. "Gabriel? What is going on out here? Why are you shouting at Julian?"
Gabriel turned his icy gaze directly onto his sister, snapping at her without a single shred of familial warmth. "Janella, stay out of my face. If I find out you had even a single fraction of involvement in this petty, low-tier social grudge, I will personally ensure our mother locks your junior investment clearance before the afternoon block concludes. You are all acting like absolute idiots!"
He turned back to Jul
