Marrying the Man in the Dark

Chapter 1212 Committing Patricide

Anthony's finger quivered as he leveled it at Jude, his voice carrying a mix of accusation and disbelief. "You!!!"

Jude, defiant and unyielding, met Anthony's accusatory gaze head-on. "You unfilial child!"

"You even went to the extent of setting up your own brother!" Anthony's voice cracked with raw emotion.

"Kenneth's not my real flesh and blood brother," Jude shot back, his tone cutting through the tension like a blade.

Jude's eyes narrowed, his voice cold and calculated. "He's an illegitimate child that popped out of your love affair with some other woman."

"He is not an illegitimate child! He's your brother, for goodness' sake!" Anthony insisted, desperation creeping into his words.

Anthony clenched his jaw tightly, his gaze piercing as he fixed it upon Jude. "You've spent all these years acting this stupid just for that dead woman, didn't you?!"

"Kenneth is the one that's your true brother!" Anthony asserted with fervor.

"What significance do those two from the Lenoir lineage hold?! They don't compare to your actual brother!" Anthony's voice thundered with frustration.

you've chosen to plot with them, to act against Kenneth, against me of all

forgotten that Kenneth is the one that's actually related to you?!" Jude regarded Anthony's enraged countenance

gently intertwining his fingers with Dorothy's. "But Father, when you discovered Phoenix

born out of wedlock, because she was 'tainted' just from

in the realm of my heart, because I wished to claim Phoenix

his head, concealing the depth of sadness in

irony. "Why must I be denied friendship

against a mutual

not your offspring; they need not carry the burden of patricide."

aback by Jude's words, rendered momentarily speechless. After a pause, Anthony chuckled incredulously. "So you allied yourself with them, conspiring against your own father, all for the sake

Jude responded

gaze. "I orchestrated my meeting with Damien and Cherise, with

proposed to Damien that he come to Yatesville to assist me in confronting the Gray

of this was my design," Jude confessed

an air of detachment, his hands beginning to knead Dorothy's shoulders gently. "Mr. Anthony, there are moments when I am filled with both anger and sorrow. I am angry that

and its operations are no longer within your grasp, and Colin and I have long shed our

we saw the nature of people, and

are my