She wants it all
Ester was furious. She had not expected any resistance. Why should she? She was Ester McAllen and what she wanted she got. When she first met the king she knew what she was going to do. When she told her mother and grandmother they were a bit apprehensive.
They both remembered the time when the family business was discovered and the family was quickly shunned then persecuted. Ester's father actually took the family in a more legitimate path creating beautiful lines of clothing and makeup. He knew style and he knew how to both create it and sell it.
But the women in the family still dealt with life in the old ways. They controlled their prostitutes, males, females, humans, or demi-human, to a high degree but they always treated them well and paid them well. They refused to be found out again.
Ester's father already said that they would be cut out as a shunned branch family if they were ever caught.
