Benjamin and Felicity had their wounds dressed. They sat huddled together, their faces ashen, and for a moment, they almost looked like a pair of ill‑fated lovers.
Benjamin stared coldly at Adelaide. "Adelaide, I accept that I have lost. If you want to kill or punish me, do it quickly. To humiliate me like this only brings shame upon the Carteret name."
As soon as he spoke, the expressions of the onlookers shifted. In business, wins and losses were always uncertain, and defeat was nothing out of the ordinary, but to be treated this way…
"Humiliate you? You are hardly worthy of that. You are nothing but a dog on a leash."
Adelaide knew Benjamin wanted to paint himself as a man of honor and courage in everyone's eyes. But she had no intention of letting him have his way.
She intended to
