Chapter seventy

Rebecca's eyes widened, and her mother audibly gasped, her hands going to her chest. "Isn't that the partner that your uncle said was the bane of his existence? " Her mother said before she even realized that she'd spoken aloud.

Jeremy smiled, he was proud of the legacy that his father had left behind, one thing that even Sinclair did not know was that his father had been a very powerful partner and he was feared by the rest of them.

Even Hilda and Gilbert had looked quite surprised to find out he was there to take his father's place.

"How could you hide this from me after so many years of being married?" Rebecca asked, trying to make him feel guilty.

"Really? It is not like you didn't have a few secrets of your own." He replied stiffly.

"I don't regret leaving you, you are a chameleon." She spat angrily.

Jeremy shrugged, "I guess I am glad that I never spoke to you about my heritage, who knows what you would have done to sabotage me." He said, glad that he'd never disclosed who