Veiled Ambitions

"Mom, I still don't get it. Why did Grandpa agree to host this recognition banquet? Shouldn't the Hawthorne family be handling it?"

Edgar treated the family's reputation as paramount—no one was allowed to tarnish the Kensington family's name in his presence.

Even toward Lysander, his own grandson, he never showed favoritism.

He was also an absolute authoritarian, caring only about results, not the