Eve Warren had never been so humiliated in her life.
Seeing the other woman's sour expression, she turned her gaze to Celeste Grant and said coldly, "Do you have any idea who you're talking to?" She lifted her chin, her face a mask of arrogance. "If not for the fact that you're my junior, you would already be dead for disrespecting me like this."
'In the Cultivation World, some people are arrogant because they have the power and background to back it up. Sometimes, they don't even need a reason to kill you. But since Jocelyn Grant's mother got planted in the dirt by Javier Sinclair, that means he can beat her. If that's the case, what's there to be afraid of?'
'Time to fight back.'
Celeste Grant pretended to poke a finger in her ear, feigning that she couldn't hear. "What was that?" she said loudly. "The wind's too strong, I couldn't quite catch it."
