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.

Jake received another message about

Oliver was dead.

Marisa and Selena had helped bury the body

All three were arrested.

death reached the Horton family, Jake was

funeral arrangements, eventually handing over the ashes to Jake and

decided. Since Oliver had hated being confined to the family home so much, it

the ocean, letting him go

Horton's story

into the main house now that she's technically still part of the family?"

asked Jake after hearing what he

head. "No, we're fine

no need for

gave a

leave, but before he could take another step, a frail voice rang out behind him. "How could you treat your father like that?!

Nathan who had overheard the conversation and stormed out of his

was hunched, and his

was buried the day before, and Julius

to face him. "Do you think that's

Nathan froze.

remained calm. "What he cared about was why you abandoned

face twisted in confusion, his brow

of Clance, never reached for power. If all you cared about was your empire, you should

deep, and with that, he left without looking

him, but the words wouldn't come. Instead, he collapsed

was soon confirmed that

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