Exactly! We’re above all else,” Jade bellowed as she pointed Frank in the nose. “I’m giving you a chance to atone right now—apologize to my daughter!”

Jade was absolutely confident in her family’s authority and was ready to watch Frank apologize like a worm…

However, she underestimated Frank, as he simply sneered. “Apologize to you? Dream on. Hell, even having me treat your daughter is delusional.”

“Frank Lawrence! How dare you disrespect my family!” Jade was livid.

“Forget it, Mom,” Luna snapped in her bed. “We don’t need him. There has to be a healer who can get me better anyway.”

On the other hand, Hali quickly reasoned, “Please, Mrs. Lane. Just calm down for a moment—you have a miracle worker right here, and your daughter will get well right away. And you’re all family, right? Why get all upset over some little argument?”

“Shut up!”

Hali’s advice only left Jade further incensed. “Family?! With him?! He isn’t family—I won’t let him near my house even if he offered to clean our toilets for free!”

the other hand, Frank turned to leave, not bothered to stay and

frantically reasoning, “Please, Frank. I know you had a little argument with my relatives, and they can be a little too much—but if you seize this chance and treat Luna, they’ll

seize this chance too, convinced that Frank would rise from rags to riches if the Lanes of Southstream gave him even a

only would she be free from Vicky’s control, but he would also rise to power in Riverton. Her family would stop belittling him at

Frank did not seem to care and even gloated with

of them provide? Even without them,

men in uniforms charged into

demanded, “Which of you

in shock at the group of men, who were

in, ready for violence. Were they

impassive as he stopped forward. “I’m Frank Lawrence. Who are

among other charges. You’re coming with us,” the man in the

behind Frank, pressing

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