"That's enough!"

Gina sprang to her feet and yelled at Helen, "Can't you just stop already?! Cindy is your cousin! Are you really so bent on pushing her over the brink?!"

"Me, pushing her?!" Helen laughed miserably. "I'm your daughter, Mom! Forget running to me after you split up with Dad—you even had to burden me with a dead weight like Cindy! And you know all too well how many terrible things she's done—do you think I'm that stupid?"

Then, glaring at Gina, she continued, "Also, I welcomed you with open arms since you and Dad went your separate ways, but I never had a day of peace ever since you came! You complain because you can't live like a trophy wife in Northstream, and blame Grandfather for being strict with you—you even tricked me into divorcing Frank! You made me an enemy of Frank and drove Grandfather to his death!"

"You and Cindy are certainly satisfied, but what about me?! Have you ever treated me like a daughter?! You're just treating me like leverage against Dad!"

Gina was left stumped at Helen's tearful rant, but she also knew she had no excuses.

"I-It's all because..." she stammered. "I-I'm doing this for your own good! You'll eventually get it..."

"Hah!" Helen snorted, utterly disappointed in her mother.

the Graves, and the Lionhearts, none of them were smiling at

were shaking with rage, as his family

out this mess, Chaz," he

rage flared even more at Wyll's outburst, and he bellowed maniacally, "What

charged at Frank, barefisted since they could not carry weapons to the

suit, and there were over a dozen men encircling Frank and Helen in

Crash!

dome overhead shattered as a figure leapt down deftly, crashing resoundingly between Frank

who had

soon as I

glaring at the bodyguards around him as he

dome sent all the guests fleeing

Chaz shrieked madly, his temple veins

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