"She's just unlucky, of all people to provoke, she had to go after Nora Hart. Knowing full well that her family has a grudge against the Hart's, and still she walked right into the line of fire."
Lila Vaughn choked up a bit when she heard Clara Vaughn's words, "Jack Holt is Jack Holt, Matthew Holt is Matthew Holt, you can't lump them together."
Clara Vaughn set down the glass she was holding and glared at Lila Vaughn, "Why can't I? Neither of the Holt siblings is normal. The elder one messes around and got his secretary pregnant, the younger one chases stars without using his brain. And you tell me I can't generalize? Are they stupid in their special ways?"
Lila Vaughn got a verbal smackdown.
Seeing Clara Vaughn's towering rage, she didn't dare to say anything else.
Every time Clara Vaughn thought about how she had been intimidated by Andrew Locke, she would get angry. She had been in this world for decades, only to be suppressed by a junior several cycles younger than herself.