Chapter 198: 'Goodbye, Mafia'

[Ralph’s POV]

‘Everything will go away like a breeze,’ said the business king, his friendly chuckle slithered across the metal desk of the interrogation room.

Declare myself bankrupt. And with that, Lux Corp will be free from me. I sign this, and I’m the Virtus monster that had stolen from a coma patient and forced his daughter to marry me; that I forced myself on her to get an heir; that I’m no better than a fucking rapist.

Sign this, and my connection with Juliette—or the Lux line—will be gone forever.

I was gripping the metal arm of the chair so hard, my fingernails were white and shaking with immense rage.

All those years of hard work. All the pain, the constant anxiety and agony that I’ve endured from my selfish brothers, my father the Demon, and then the greedy cold-blooded assholes of the Second Tiers.

I looked up and the unmistakable sly glint in those old eyes met my gaze. As though telling me: the Virtus gift was nothing—you are nothing.

Fingernails sank deeper into my