Jake looked at the message on his phone and understood immediately.

Lewis had been keeping tabs on them for a while, just waiting for his grandmother to pass before dealing with each of them one by one.

A chill ran down Jake's spine for a moment, but he felt a sense of relief wash over him. He was thankful he'd finally wised up in the past few months and stopped going against his uncle.

Jake quickly replied, "Thank you, Uncle," and pulled up the location Lewis had sent him.

He then drove with Oliver to the given address.

...

Oliver was in denial until the very end. Following Lewis's directions, they arrived at the address and saw the car parked out front.

The second they stopped, Oliver bolted out of the car and rushed to the door, bursting inside without hesitation.

Through a large window, Jake stood watching as Oliver stormed in, seeing the shocked and panicked expressions on Marisa and the driver's faces and how Selena took a frightened step back.

He saw Oliver grab Marisa by the arm, violently yanking her toward the door in a fit of rage.

He was screaming, red-faced, and desperate, but somehow, he didn't seem threatening anymore.

The man who had once terrified Jake as a child, the father who seemed so untouchable, was gone. The man inside that house now was small and pitiful.

Jake found himself laughing softly. He couldn't understand what he had been so afraid of all those years.

With a quiet chuckle, Jake turned away and walked off.

He didn't look back.

That man wasn't worth looking back for.

days later, Jake received another message about his

Oliver was dead.

driver had accidentally killed him during a scuffle, and Marisa and Selena had helped bury the body in

All three were arrested.

Oliver's death reached the Horton family, Jake was stunned. Even Melissa was taken aback for

Oliver's funeral arrangements, eventually handing over the ashes to

had hated being confined to the family home so much, it seemed only fitting to set him

ashes into the ocean, letting him go where

story had

mom still need to move back into the main house now that she's technically still part of the family?" In the Horton

asked Jake after hearing what he had done with the

we're

Lewis. Jake saw no need for him and his mother to return. It would only force them to face people they had wronged, and living there wouldn't feel

gave a nod

frail voice rang out behind him. "How could you treat your father like that?! You ungrateful

who had overheard the conversation and stormed out of his room, looking like he had

posture was hunched, and his once

Horton was buried the day before, and Julius hadn't

tracks and turned to face him. "Do you think that's what he

Nathan froze.

calm. "What he cared about was why you

twisted in confusion,

your fault. You were a coward. You should've stayed out of Clance, never reached for power. If all you cared about was your empire, you should have been crueler, but you couldn't even manage that. You weren't soft, but you weren't ruthless. You were the worst kind of man—one who

and with that, he left without

rage, tried to call after him, but the words wouldn't come.

that Nathan

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