Everard scoffed at that insult from Hamilton. He couldn’t believe that someone would talk to him like that apart from his father and Alexander.
Hamilton wasn’t done mocking Everard though. He pinched his nose with his glove-covered fingers and made another derogatory comment, “Now, if you would back off a little, I would finally be able to breathe.”
“What did you just say?” Everard snarled at Hamilton in anger. He was ready to pick a fight with that man who behaved as if he was the King of the world and he was ready to show that man his place.
Thankfully, Alexander arrived at the spot right in time and asked, “Everard, do you know them?”
Everard turned his head to look at his friend and replied, “I know the lady. And I was trying to get to know the gentleman with a foul mouth here.”
Ruby felt happy when Everard acknowledged to that gentleman that he knew her. But she was worried about the growing tension between Everard and the kind man who had brought her there.
