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!”

to leave,

quickly stopped him, frantically reasoning, “Please, Frank. I know you had a little argument with my relatives, and they can

convinced that Frank would rise from rags to riches if the Lanes of Southstream gave him even

not 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 that point

seem to care and even gloated

chance can the likes of them provide? Even without them, I’m unstoppable

black men in uniforms charged into the

demanded, “Which of you

group of

way they charged in, ready for

he stopped forward. “I’m

and grand theft among other charges. You’re coming with us,” the man

behind Frank, pressing a palm over

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