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“Order is what I decree, and what you must obey.”
When the words resounded in his mind, Karon, seated upon the steps, quietly closed his eyes.
“Young Master Karon?” Ms. Jenny looked at him in confusion. Just moments before, he had been chatting and laughing with her. She instinctively leaned closer to take another look, but Eunice gently pulled her back.
Alfred also noticed the change in his young master. Though he stood behind the young man, at that instant Alfred sensed a shift in Karon’s bearing. It was as if his master were sitting in a cathedral, devoutly listening to a priest’s sermon.
Alfred immediately stepped down the stairs to stand in front of Karon.
Borg did not know what had happened, but when he saw Alfred move, he promptly took up a position directly behind Karon. One in front and one behind, they enclosed Karon between them.
Seeing this, Eunice immediately drew her mother away.
“What is this…”
“Shh.” Eunice raised a finger. Ms. Jenny nodded once, indicating she understood.
In truth, due to their time together in Roja City and traveling back to Veyn on the cruise ship, Ms. Jenny had long held a fixed impression of Karon. Not only that, the man before her was her future son-in-law. She had already seen him from the perspective of a mother-in-law for quite some time.
That was also why she had found it difficult to adjust after returning home and witnessing the immense respect her father-in-law showed towards Karon, as well as his meteoric rise within the Allen family.
As a daughter-in-law to the Allen family who came from an ordinary background, Ms. Jenny was aware of the Allen family’s peculiar nature and many of the secrets of the inner circle, yet had never experienced them firsthand.
She harbored no ill intent. It was merely that, at times when she spoke to Karon or dealt with him directly, she would make a point to act a bit more intimate, savoring the vanity and satisfaction she felt in front of her sisters-in-law.
In the distance,...
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