Celina interjected, her voice rising with indignation. “Exactly! What’s the point of apologising? We can settle this matter privately. There’s no need to tarnish the entire Ashmoor family’s name. Just because she’s a Feymere, does that make her superior?”
She was warming to her argument now, her fear temporarily forgotten.
She added, “We didn’t force her into marriage, and we didn’t force her to divorce. Why should we subject ourselves to such embarrassment?”
Yielding to that woman would ruin Celina’s reputation in her social circle, subjecting her to mockery.
Her friends would laugh at her. Talk about her behind her back.
She’d become the girl whose family had to apologize to their former daughter-in-law.
Therefore, apologising was out of the question!
Absolutely ou
