Winner Takes All novel Chapter 671

The atmosphere was tensed in the meeting hall.

Everyone was fuming with anger but no one dared to speak. Even when Zenith swaggered in to take Jack away, everyone just looked on but didn’t stop him.

What Zenith said before he left was like a slap across everyone’s face and the pain stung intensely. Since when had the Hughes family suffered such insult?

It was deadly silent for a long while. Some murmuring began ten minutes after Jack and Zenith left. One of the authority holders went forward to close the doors of the meeting hall and the situation in the hall erupted.

“Preposterous! What a humiliation!” Carter ground his teeth as he fumed, “How can my Hughes family be humiliated to such an extent, and yet everyone dared not even say a word?” As soon as Carter spoke, everyone else started to express their fury. It was as if Carter’s words opened the dam.

“Shameful. Now the Hughes family’s reputation has been totally tarnished.”

“Zenith of the Dragon Cavalry really has some balls!”

“To think that the life of an heir was only worth twenty slashes. Zenith was even willing to take the blame for George’s death. I had heard of Zenith’s dominance of the north through tyranny but today I’ve finally seen it for myself. He’s a tyrant, no, he is no better than any other thug!”

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The yells and rebuke reverberated through the hall. Patrick sat in his chair in silence. He simply observed their expressions and listened to what they had to say. Patrick scoffed in his heart but his gaze was full of disgust for them.

The group of authority holders of the Hughes family … could only vent their anger in frustration and were helpless to do anything. If just this was to leak out it would attract the ridicule of everyone.

“Patrick, your wishes came true!” Madam Hughes sat upright in her chair as she trembled with anger. Her eyes were red and welled up with tears as she glared ferociously at Patrick.

The entire meeting hall became silent after she spoke and everyone looked at Patrick. It was clear to everyone that although Patrick maintained neutral and calm, everyone knew that he was putting up an act. His procrastination, the words that he said, everything was too steady and calm. When everyone was so worried that they were tearing out their hair, Patrick as the head of the family, was able to maintain such composure and calmness. Everyone could see how he protected and sheltered Jack.

Anger, disdain, shame… All kinds of feelings were raging in each of the authority holders as they glared at Patrick.

“Ah!” Patrick grinned and said, “Does Madam Hughes think that I had done anything inappropriate?”

“You were inappropriate in many areas!”

Smack! Madam Hughes slapped on the table, “As the head of the family, the reputation of the family had been tarnished to this extent and you are still ruled by your emotions? Think of what your attitude was from the beginning of this matter, have you ever considered for the family? Have you thought about how our lives are affected by you?”