The Billionaire Son-in-law

244. Good Friend.

"Okay, I don't want to cause any rift between you two but–"

"It's okay Mike. You can say it."

"Okay. First of all, Lucas, Ivy's mother didn't kill your parents. Grover did."

"What?" He had spent his whole life believing a lie. Ever since he found out that Grover was an evil person, he suspected that some or most of what he told him was a lie, he just never thought this was one of it.

"While they didn't kill them directly, your mother was kind of involved indirectly." He continued.

"What Grover told me was that he was working with Festus, and that both of them planned to kill your parents, but Ivy's mother found out.

She threatened to call the cops on them and both culprits decided to bribe her with the house and a company."

"Wait so… the house we grew up in, and the company they owned… does it all belong to Lucas?"

"I'm afraid so."

"Oh my goodness. So uh, why did she adopt him then?"

"She didn't want to, Grover asked her to. There was a ten million dollar payment for whoever took the