"Jacob?" Daniel stared at the familiar old man standing before him, his face a mixture of surprise and disbelief. His gaze grew complicated as memories from the past surged through his mind.
He was the illegitimate son of Benjamin from the Cooper family. At what should have been a grand and joyous party, he was drugged. In his dazed state, he committed an unforgivable crime—raping a young lady from the Baker family, one of the four major families.
When the truth came to light, the Cooper family, determined to protect their reputation, did not hesitate to cast him out, leaving him to fend for himself on the streets. His mother, implicated in the scandal, was ruthlessly murdered. From that moment, the seeds of hatred took root deep within him. He silently vowed that one day, Benjamin would
