In front of him, I packed away all my sharp edges…
If this had been a few years earlier and he had heard Elly Campbell say this, he would have found her laughable and utterly unaware of herself.
Yet on that day, he had witnessed with his own eyes how her superb medical skills had pulled his sister back from the brink of death…
In front of her father and illegitimate daughter, her overbearing presence had seemed like she was the ruler of the world, standing high above everyone else...
That kind of Elly Campbell, the Elly Campbell he had recently seen, was all sharp edges, a picture of disdain for the world, full of the pride of a favored daughter of heaven.
He had almost forgotten that her grandfather was the venerable General, that she was the only daughter of the Campbell Family, born high above others, proud as a little peacock princess.
