Verity didn't know what she was expecting but the shock was a surprise to her and to her great displeasure she gasped, jumping. "Fucking hell! I didn't do anything!" she retorted against the injustice, as if she should have expected anything else.
"An inconvenience for you?! Then let us go! I will leave the wizarding world, do you hear me?! I will go and I will never look back!" She could feel hot tears stinging her eyes and her throat closing and she cussed under her breath. This wasn't fucking happening. She wasn't going to cry in front of this woman.
As she leaned in Verity leaned back, just barely avoiding scrambling away. "Then you win. I can't just roll over and let you do this."