Unyielding Defiance

In the end, Beatrix was pulled back by the butler.

The butler was genuinely terrified that if he'd been even a second late, the Drexel family would have been turned upside down.

Beatrix asked someone to escort Gareth back to his room downstairs.

She sat in the living room, waiting.

She knew her father all too well.

There was no way he'd just go to sleep like that.

He was just trying to knock her d