Chapter 224: Was She Exiled?
"This is injustice! You all are looking for reasons to plunder the wealth Jerome Brunton earned all his life. After everything he has done for you in your times of need, is there not a single person who’d advocate for him?" Arthur asked with his expression sombre. Silence ensued for sometime and Arthur glanced at everyone of those Lords who sit high above. He would never beg, hell, he didn’t even has the need to say this... but he wanted to see if he should be lenient towards any one of them for Brunton’s sake.
"He did? Didn’t he gain more than he lost by helping us?" Lord Clairmont said with his chubby cheeks shaking. He was not happy getting reminded of the past.
He helped him. So what? Did he go poor by helping others? Why can’t he give more?
"Yeah he did, no thanks to you," Arthur snickered.
Lord Clairmont had lost a lot for Northern Star that he had gained. And still Brunton kept him in there because he remembered in what state Lord Clairmont was when he begging him to help him. Jerome knew he’d revert to that pathetic state if he let’s him go. Apparently, Lord Clairmont’s father had helped Jerome’s father in the past and so Jerome wanted to repay the debt.
For Arthur, he felt like Jerome Brunton had repaid more that what he is owed. And seeing that ungrateful look on Lord Clairmont, he was sure he is right.
Arthur’s snarky remark made all the Lords look at Arthur with a frown and some even cussed at him for talking out of his status and asked him to apologise.
Arthur just smirked and stood firm. Who is going to apologise for whom? He looked at the King who was silently watching everything going around. He looked like he just wanted to observe and was in no hurry to bring order in the place.
See, no one even respects your presence, Your Majesty. What are you going to do?