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.

plot with them, to act against Kenneth, against me of

is the one that's actually related to you?!" Jude

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

smile hardened with an edge. "Because Phoenix bore the stain of being born out of wedlock, because she was 'tainted' just from being born, you forbade me from

realm of my heart, because I wished to claim Phoenix as my own in this lifetime alone, you dispatched agents to drug

of sadness in his

his lips, his voice tinged with irony. "Why must I be denied friendship with the

against a mutual foe," Jude added

offspring; they need not carry the burden of patricide." "Since that's the

After a pause, Anthony chuckled incredulously. "So you allied yourself with them, conspiring against your own father, all for

quite," Jude responded

yet his eyes held a frosty calm as he met Anthony's gaze. "I orchestrated

to Yatesville to assist me in confronting the

of this was my design," Jude

gently. "Mr. Anthony, there are moments when I am filled with both anger and sorrow. I am angry that

your grasp, and

truth, we saw the nature of people, and eventually... we glimpsed

ultimately, you are my father,

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