“I’m unhappy because my father is a vicious drunk. Or perhaps I should say that my father is vicious, period, since he’s drunk all the time. He terrorizes all of us, but no one seems to mind except me.” The word terrorizes gave her pause, but she didn’t want to interrupt him. “I hate living on the estate. I have no purpose in life other than to consume resources while I wait for my father to die so I can become the Duke of Aquilla, which I very, very much do not want to do. Hell, I don’t even want to be a baron.” He laughed bitterly and raised his cup. “Poor Max, right?” He rolled his eyes,
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