Her words made the Talbots' faces turn livid, and they wished the ground would swallow them whole.
"Your daughter is the subject of slanderous rumors, yet as parents, you're busy trying to cash in on it. This makes me wonder if your family had a hand in how the rumors spread back then!"
"We didn't!" Keith Talbot retorted. "That's slander! A baseless accusation!"
"Sylvie Lockwood, you're just a junior! You… You're utterly audacious!"
"You're slandering your elders. If you've got proof, show it to me. Otherwise, this is nothing but malicious slander."
"An elder? You think you have the right to call yourself my elder?" Sylvie scoffed.
"An elder should act like one, but look at the kind of daughter you've raised. Search your heart and ask yourself: with the way you talk and behave, do you really deserve to pull rank on me?"
"I'll be as audacious as I want. My own grandfather hasn't said a word, so it's hardly your place to lecture me."
