51 Luke POV

Luke.

A FEW HOURS AGO.

I had just finished training and was about to hang out with Caleb when we got a call that our father was in the hospital. Stacy had called her son and was rambling on the phone. We abandoned our plans and rushed to the hospital. By the time we got there, our father was asleep. The doctor said he would be okay and had just suffered from severe shock. “What happened?” Caleb asked his mother.

“Tell Luke to ask his bitch of a wife what she did,” she shot back, and I wondered how Tia could have a hand in this, and that was when Monica spoke up. “She told Uncle Aesop in my presence that aunty Stacy was robbing everyone to pay off a blackmailer that had been blackmailing her for Twenty-three years, and because of that, she does not trust me to work in the corp. She made sure they fired me for it,” she said.

hurt and angry. “What happened before she said all that. I know Tia wouldn’t have volunteered the

with Gail now that you were no longer

her to speak. I have known Tia for years and she wouldn’t volunteer the information like that,”

had to hear it from someone else, I would react the same. Blame yourself and no one else,” I said, and she slapped me hard across the face. She

looked her dead in the

sorry, and she won’t do it again,” Caleb said, pleading on her behalf, but I held on. “The next time you speak of my wife disrespectfully again, I will deal with you, and the same goes for your niece. Be warned,” I said, and she began to cry; I let her hand go. “Monster!” she yelled at me, “Aesop will never treat me like this!” she said, weeping, and

was because he lost Tia. We waited a bit in the hospital until my father woke up, and we followed him home. I used that opportunity to shower and change my clothes in my wing. My father told me what had transpired and how he had threatened Tia before she decided to tell him the real reason why she did not want Monica working with Gail. According to him, Tia said she wanted someone she could hold accountable and punish without bias. She wasn’t comfortable with Monica because Stacy had money issues, and someone had been blackmailing her for twenty-Three

I did not know if she would like it, so I opted to torture her

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