Chapter 84

Oscar stared in shock at Jake's mop of dark hair bent over the table as he cried out his guilt.

'You killed him?' His voice was bathed in disbelief. 'Why? How?'

'What's worse than knowing your son hated your very existence?' Jake was so absorbed in self-loath that he did not read the implications of what Oscar was asking.

'So you poisoned him because you hated him?' Oscar was asking direct questions to reach a clear conclusion.

'Was my hatred towards him not poisonous enough to kill him? I wished him death so many times and now he's dead. I may not have been responsible for his physical death, I however killed his dreams, his hope, and his happiness.' Jake lamented.

Oscar breathed a sigh of relief. He had gotten a clear answer to the doubt Jake had stirred in him. Jake didn't kill his father but he blames himself for his death.

"Could it be because of his self-loath, Jake accepted being responsible for Mr Dominic's death as atonement?" Oscar's mind was plagued with this unsettling th