Chapter 170 Romanticise The Past

• Andrei expected his father to go batshit on them the moment they set foot inside. Surprisingly, it was his uncle, Sergei, who crashed out almost immediately. He lunged at Rowena as soon as the doors slid in place, screaming in her face all kinds of crazy accusations about betrayal, and forgetting her place in the family as he backed her against the floor-to-ceiling bookcase.
• "Leave her alone! This isn't her fault. We asked her to help us!" Holly said quietly, just as Sergei wrapped his thick fingers around Rowena's fragile, wrinkly neck, ready to snuff out the life from her.
• For Andrei, watching the entire thing unfold felt like an out-of-body experience. His uncle was always so tame, so harmless. The kind of guy who'd never hurt a fly. A toothless bulldog. That's what some of the older made men called him. But the longer Andrei watched the chaos play out, the more he realised that sometimes toothless bulldogs also snapped. And Rowena's betrayal—going against Nikolai's plan to marry Andrei off to the Petrovs—had pushed Sergei beyond his limit.