"Wow… that sounds almost unbelievable!" Meg gasped in wonder.
"I know," Jake agreed. "Anyway, Richard took a chance on me and gave me the opportunity of a lifetime. Nobody saw it coming."
"He must have seen something in you that no one else saw."
"Yes. That was how my journey into a new world began."
Jake told Meg about his rivalry with Martin, how Stephanie came into the picture and became Morgan's surrogate and how they nearly lost Victoria.
"How cruel!" Meg said. "Why would she do that?"
"To teach me a lesson," Jake answered. "Anyway, it didn't end there…"
He continued his story and told her of how Stephanie teamed up with his greatest enemy and tried to ruin him. How he sought help from Arturo Mendici, but was rescued by Athena Milan instead, under the instructio
