"I'm glad you're not angry that we handled it without telling you," Luke said, smiling slightly with a hint of self-reproach in his expression as he looked at her.
Seeing him like that, Hera couldn't stay angry any longer, so she shook her head. "No, even if you had done something else, it wouldn't have hindered my plan. Besides, what you guys did was almost the same as what my company was about to do—what I have in stock was more of a retaliation than fixing the issue. So, I'm actually more than grateful to all of you." Hera smiled, the sincerest smile she could muster.
Now that she thought about it, she hadn't expected Leo to integrate so well with the other five. Now, she felt like she had six knights in shining armor, and now she felt like she understood how Alice felt in the novel, being protected by such men.
