Chapter 770

On a night where the wind howled like souls in torment and a solitary moon cast a chilling glow, Barry arrived punctually at the old mansion’s second–floor study, where Gary was already waiting, his forlorn shadow. stretched across the floor like a specter summoned from the abyss.

“Dad, after all we’ve been through, I never imagined you’d be this ruthless with me.”

Gary lounged on the leather couch, his laugh cold as the grave. “I’ve always paid you respect, worked tirelessly for the family business, And now, just because I’m handicapped, you cast me aside like yesterday’s news. Isn’t that a bit harsh?”

Barry sensed danger and spun to yank open the door–only to find that it wouldn’t budge.

“Save your energy. You’re not stepping one foot out of this house unless I say so.” Gary, about to light a cigarette, remembered his incapacity and resentfully shoved it back into the pack.

“Greg, Greg!” Barry’s voice trembled with fear as sweat drenched his back.

The door creaked open.

“Mr. Fairhaven, Greg is here.”

smeared with blood, and callously dropped Greg’s lifeless body at Barry’s feet as if it

tunneled and his body trembled. He roared at Gary, “You dared to kill? Have you lost your mind? What do you

gone

day, you had no qualms about getting your hands dirty to build up the Fairhaven Group, right? Now you’re old, you’ve been acting the lapdog

“Gary Fairhaven!”

fifty years of father–son affection. I lost interest in your shares. Let your precious grandson clean up the Fairhaven mess if he

to cower, to grovel for

own son, of

Gary. “You’ve played the dutiful son for years, and now your true colors show. But I’m still one step ahead. Before you came for me, I transferred all my assets and shares to Jareth. He’s now the patriarch of the Fairhaven family, the one calling the shots

to me when you’re dying?” “Lie to you? Is that necessary?

Kris is gone, I have never thought of letting you be the heir of the Fairhaven Group for a day! I have always preferred Jareth, and I have always cultivated.”

contorting his face, and

Barry clutched his wound and collapsed to his knees, his

a creature that had lost all humanity

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Chapter 770

did you just say that even without my brother, I’d never take over the

kicked Barry down, his boot pressing into the bleeding wound, eliciting a scream of agony. “Let

in disbelief, his eyes bulging with pain and

chance to save him, I let him drown. He died thinking his own brother wouldn’t harm him. Don’t you know that at that time, when he watched me swim to the surface of the sea, his eyes were actually quite pleased, and he didn’t have any hatred at all. Such

eyes brimmed with tears of blood. He roared in defiance,

then another, and

a silent plea, his eyes wide open in

The father

blame me. Blame yourself for being too heartless

gently closed his father’s eyes. “Kris was too good for this world, too kind for the cutthroat business. Only I am the rightful heir. Pity

the mansion’s gates, Barry’s car still parked outside, an ominous symbol of the

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