Frank's Maybach drove into Lane Manor soon enough.

Frank felt emotional even as he stared at the building—the last time he had gone inside was during Henry Lane's funeral.

He made up his mind to have Helen move into Skywater Bay with him as well.

Cindy and Gina could have the manor if they knew their place and stopped messing with him.

Still, his phone rang just as he was about to press the doorbell.

It was an unfamiliar number, but Frank answered without hesitation.

"I'm surprised you're alive, Frank," an ancient but authoritative voice spoke from the other end.

fingers clenched around his phone—the voice invoked all sorts of memories from

to calm down as much as possible, he soon replied

a grudge

seemed to pierce Frank in the brain, striking a

Frank changed the subject instead of

I heard about it all the way from Cloudington. I

as he asked, "Why are

perfectly normal for a dad to call his own son?" Godwin Lawrence chuckled before saying quietly, "If you're done behaving like a

chest heaved even as he snapped, "I'll ask you a question, old man, and you damned well be honest! Were

suffocating silence, and

did," the ancient

heart and soul for them! Hundreds were killed, and all because you're forcing me to go home?!" "That's not all," Godwin remained haughty and authoritative, pausing a moment before adding, "The things that embroil Mystic Sky Sect are exceedingly complicated, and it's more than what you can see. I can't

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