Zach had already come to the same conclusion, but he wanted to make sure what the information was correct and came from the right source.
"It was one of the Hunter family's people who brought a scroll bearing the Hunter family insignia and the stamp of the current family head. I thought it was a call for truce since the Hunter family had miserably failed to stop the rise of the sugar industry and were afraid of our retaliation."
Violet took a pause and sighed as if disappointed that things weren't as she had expected them to be but then a solemn expression took over her visage and her tone grew heavier with each breath as she uttered the rest of her monologue in one go.
