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Voices overlapped before anyone made an effort to control them.
“This is too sudden,” Edwin said.
“It’s not sudden, it’s necessary—” Wyatt cut in.
“Necessary for who?” Edwin shot back.
Darren stood at the center of it, unmoving, his expression set, but his silence only gave them more room to keep going.
Edwin leaned forward slightly, his gaze fixed across the table. “We are not questioning the transition,” he said, his tone firm. “We are questioning the timing. You can't force us to rush into any kind of coronation at the moment.”
Stephen scoffed under his breath. “Call it what it is. You’re questioning his authority.”
A few heads turned at that.
No one denied it.
Darren’s fingers flexed once at his side.
Eleanor, seated toward the end of the table, spoke next, he
