"Jay, don't hurt my kids," said Dean. "What you've done to me is nothing compared to what I will do to you if you put them in danger. Out of respect for an old friendship, return them to us, and nothing will happen to you. Come on, man. Look where your fixation with a woman led you. This is not you."Jay rolled his eyes and tapped the tree trunk with the back of his head.
"Do you think that night at the party was about Rebecca? I won't deny that her fixation with you made me jealous, but that's not why I made you that drink. That same day Rice U took away my full scholarship because I hacked my way through a stupid online English test. I couldn't tell that to my parents. They would've kicked me out of the house and made me find a job. I knew your dad had some retirement money, so I made a
