Chapter 247: Madness and Sins

Adrian didn't falter.

With a hiss, he shot back, "And you're already corrupted long before you could discover your potential, weren't you, Grisham Donovan?"

Grisham flares up.

His eye twitches, the madness from before returning full-force, burning through his eyes like a coiled snake, sneering at one from behind the glass of a cage. He then went on to rant, "What makes you think you can get all critical on me? You think I'd actually accept your flimsy excuse of an offer? I'd rather die than allow myself to conform to your idyllic, irresponsible, incomprehensible, blasted ideologies! You hear, Adrian?!" 

His fist slams against the table. The scratching sound of a chair scraping back nearly causes Adrian to flinch, but he holds his ground at the madness flashing in his grandfather's eyes - the remnants of the family head that he had left behind. His greatest failure, right before his eyes.

Grisham stalks forward.