"Our answer was quite clear," Bastet said.
Edmund put his bag down beside his shoe. He raised his face toward Kaiden, trying to stand straighter while Rook asked the receptionist to preserve the documents and contact the original applicants.
"Mr. Grey. I'm Edmund Hensley. I believe your mother has told you about me."
"She did not."
"..." the old man's expression turned wry.
You are a brave man." Kaiden regarded him coldly from the roof. "Or a desperate one."
"I apologize for the intrusion," Edmund said. "But this is too important for us to give up. I hope you'll consider what it means that we were willing to risk even the Shadow Monarch's anger to be here."
"I see it for what it is."
Edmund managed a wry smile.
"We all came prepared to stay," the woman in the cardigan added. "I put my home on the market. I've begun transferring my business interests. I am serious about leaving, whatever your reviewers may have decided about me."
