"What?!"

The Southstream Lanes were all left astonished by Roth's words, and even as they wondered what he really meant, Gavin asked, "What do you mean, Roth..."

He was actually skeptical and urged his son for more details.

Seeing that his family had trouble understanding, Roth adjusted his glasses as he spoke bluntly this time, "The Four Families of Southstream are now three. All thirty-two members of the Graves family have been butchered—none were left alive.”

The Southstream Lanes were all gasping at Roth's words.

"Butchered? All of them?!" Gavin exclaimed, before turning stiffly toward Frank and seeing that he remained calm despite the bombshell...

As if he already knew.

Seizing Roth by the collar right then, Gavin cried urgently, "But what about the Lionhearts or Titus?!" "Calm down, Dad." Roth adjusted his glasses as he patted his father's shoulders. "Titus left, announcing to everyone that he no longer has ties to the Graves family and would therefore not meddle with the wedding between Chaz Graves and Helen Lane.”

was

expression turned

sources to uncover the facts, but Frank Lawrence—the man who crashed Helen's wedding—had forced Titus to back off. Hell, the man conceded to Frank, and every Riverton bigwig witnessed it. He agreed to never challenge Frank

attempts to

look surprised before celebrating that they had somehow dodged a bullet. However, he only found them

your service." Frank nodded, smiling faintly as the Lanes

"Pfft." Helen giggled audibly.

did not disappoint her—he had said that he forced Titus to concede, and he did! And the looks on the faces of the Southstream

"You're Frank Lawrence?!"

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