The Wedding Is Canceled

The moment Julian's placid refusal left his lips, the sprawling banquet hall plunged into a dead, suffocating silence. Everyone in the room was utterly, paralyzingly stunned. Absolutely no one in the entirety of Harrington's history had ever dared to openly defy a direct, merciful compromise from the underworld king, yet this raggedy ex-convict had just offered Thomas Leone absolutely no respect.