A little heart to heart

JEREMY'S POV

“Why are you telling me this?”

“Because you're slipping away from your purpose as the heir of the—”

“Are you even my father?” I cut him off with the voiced-out thought.

“Don't be stupid, boy. What sort of question is that?”

“It is a valid question, seeing that you can't even face me.”

“What?”

“You hide behind a smoke screen to deliver the craziest news I've ever heard and you expect me to believe you?” I scoff and walk over to the bathroom.

I open the pill cabinet and pull out the first aid kit then I head back to the bedroom to see my father, Maxim Vongov, in his full glory standing at the doorway with an irritated expression and I'm rein in the urge to pummel him to the ground.

How dare he spit on her memory even after forcing her to arrange her death?

My teeth ache from being clenched so hard so I smack my lips, loosening my gums as I sit on the bed. My muscles turn stiff and corded with tension as he moves into the room.

Maxim first sits at the edge of th