Selma Payne's POV:
Aldrich did not care about those disbelieving or meaningful gazes and continued, "But according to what you said, becoming a member of the royal family is no doubt a death knell for your family. Then, are you not going to do anything and wait for the next unlucky person to take over? Repeat the old tricks of fighting for power for decades or centuries, and then wait for the next unlucky man to take the throne with greed for the throne and fear of destruction?"
Aldrich choked those people. They were like children who had just learned to speak, opening their mouths and chewing the air, but could not form a word.
Their faces turned red and then pale as if they were going through the history of their families in the next few hundred years in their minds. It must have been a rotten and ugly struggle, struggling to suffocate in fear, and money and power provided fake oxygen.
