The moment Jimmy Leo hung up the phone, the atmosphere in the cramped room shifted from tension to outrage.
Summer Leo was trembling, her hands clenched into tight fists at her sides. Old Leo’s face was a mask of sorrow and fury. They had been completely in the dark regarding Jimmy's extortion scheme. While Summer had been tirelessly scrubbing floors and boiling water to care for her dying father, her brother had been using that very illness as a weapon to blackmail an innocent woman.
Old Leo looked at Clara Lynn, his eyes wet with shame. "Miss, please... you have my word. You do not pay a single cent of that Five Million Dollars. When that unfilial beast comes back, I will... I will break his legs! Cough, cough!"
The intensity of his anger triggered a violent coughing fit. His chest he
