Chapter 159

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Contrary to what the three brothers initially believed, their father, the elderly master of the Blackwood family, hadn’t actually left as he’d pretended to. Instead, he had remained concealed just outside the hall, positioned in a blind spot, waiting to see if his sons had come to any realizations of what he had done.

“To think I can’t even keep such a small detail from those brats,” he murmured, letting out another deep, exasperated sigh as he recalled how quickly they had guessed the reason why he failed to punish them.

Recalling all this, the old man stood in silence for a moment before finally, a small, helpless sigh emitted from his throat as he muttered softly, “How could I even bring myself to punish them when I was even more shameless tonight?”

His gaze grew distant as he thought of how close he had come to losing control tonight, nearly executing Xavier after he had realized that he could no longer bring him closer, and had Cassandra not unwittingly intervened, he m
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