The air inside the main hall of the Flynn estate was thick with the scent of old mahogany and a stagnant, suffocating traditionalism. The grand chandeliers flickered, casting long, jagged shadows across the faces of the gathered family members. Dominic Mylod stood in the center of the room, his presence as immovable as a mountain, a sharp contrast to the frantic energy radiating from Nanny Flynn.
"Ruthless?" Dominic let out a cold, sharp laugh that echoed through the high-raftered ceiling. "Is there anyone in Duskhaven City who acts more ruthlessly than the Flynn family? Eddison Flynn conspired with street thugs to entrap and ruin his own flesh and blood. A man who sells his cousin into a thirty-million-dollar debt is lower than the filth in the gutters."
Nanny Flynn’s face paled, her gr
