NovelAppArriving at the drawing room, Frank saw a familiar face that he had just met recently.
"Oh, it's you?" Stella was seated primly on the couch, scowling even as a servant brought her tea.
"To what do I owe the pleasure?" Frank asked as he sat down comfortably on the couch, leveling an interested look at the woman who was somehow completely different than when he saw her days ago.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtIf she had been haughty and endlessly confident about being an heiress of the Favonis, she was now the image of someone beaten.
Her eyes were bloodshot even as she looked up, rasping, "F-Frank Lawrence, I've cto apologize." "Apologize?" Frank was left dumbstruck by her words, not expecting Stella to call this way to apologize.
Still, he shook his head and laughed. "Well, you don't like you're really apologizing! The public really have a lot to say aboutthese days, aboutbeing a disgrace to all martial artists and whatnot." "It's my family and my brother's excuse." Stella apologized anxiously, apologizing and quickly leveling Frank a pleading look. "It was all Gerry's fault, and you've avenged yourself after killing him. But I cto apologize for no other reason than to ask that you spare my brother's life..." "Spare your brother's life?" Frank snorted and asked coolly, "Why should I? He's getting quite full of himself, bragging to everyone that he would make despicablepay... And I wonder, even if I let him live, would you do the sto me?" Frank's retort left Stella flinching, and she bit her own lips so hard that she could bleed.
"Just go." Frank waved her off, feeling a little exasperated. "Your family is bent on takingdown in the nof justice, and so be it. I don't care how others seeanyway, but they must be ready to pay since they are the ones who started down this path." "N-No!" Stella sprang to her feet and stopped Frank from leaving.
She struggled with herself and finally told him why she had to stop him.
The Favonis were divided into two factions.
Stella's brother and father were leading the independent faction,which had taken the difficult path of striving to make something for themselves in Draconia. Content belongs to en.swThe other faction-consisting of Stella's uncles and the rest-opted to ally themselves to one of the major sects in the South Sea.
And one such offer cto them from none other than Hundred Bane Sect.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmTo entice that Favoni faction, Hundred Bane Sect provided them with many Blood Centipede Pills.
The pill enhanced a person's attributes and cultivation, and many Favoni martial artists took it.
As such, the Favonis were now in a dilemma.
If Frank defeated-or worse, killed Jaden the independent faction would fall and the entire familwould be reduced to vassals of Hundred Bane Sect. Content belongs to en.swWhen that happened...
The very thought gave Stella the creeps. She would rather die than allow her body to beca breeding place for vermin!
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