With those words, Frank laughed coolly and started to leave.

"Wait... Please wait!" George cried out in anguish, dropping out of bed with a thud as he crawled toward Frank. "Please, you have to help me! I don't want to die... Not like that!"

His cries left Kendra panicking. She rushed up and grabbed her son by the arm as she begged, "Oh, just let him meet Vicky! It's really no big deal!"

“It's not as simple as you'd like to think, Mother!"

Glen explained even as he struggled out of her grasp, his cheeks heating up like a kettle, “You know Vicky's temper—if he sees her and she decides to leave with him, do you think we can stop them? I had to go through great lengths just to convince her to accept the family's arrangement. What if she regrets it once she sees him?"

Sighing, he added, "And don't forget that Titus is still outside. Do you think we can hide this from him? What would he think of us if he finds out? It's going to be a crisis!"

"B-But..."

let your father suffer and die in agony! Is

deflated. "The Lionhearts even brought in a foreign professor, and

I

turned toward his father who crawled up to the doorway, his eyes flashing with determination. "Father will just have to

Kendra screamed—she could hear Glen's determination, and her fingers clawed into his arm as she tried to stop him. "That's your father you're talking about!

the door in a frenzy, she shouted at Frank even as he strode off into the distance, "M-Mr. Lawrence... Please! I'll let you meet Vicky, alright? I'll let you meet her, as long as you save my husband!" Frank stopped in his tracks and turned, watching Kendra and Glen quietly as the latter arrived at the doorway as

face, he realized that Glen did not reach his current position by playing on familial sentiment

clearly given up on his

to do the same... And Frank would not be

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