Chapter 184
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Kraig's mouth was left hanging as he looked at the tubes hooked to his grandfather's body. How frail the man was and how broken he actually was. There were patches on his skin, and although Kraig had no idea what they could mean, he, of course, guessed that it had to do with what the doctor had said to him. That they were the symptoms of the failure of the organs in his body.

Kraig wanted to believe with everything he had that his grandfather had been joking.

However, the old man proceeded to tell him the story:

Years ago, when Logan, Kraig's father, was in college, there, he met a girl who was in the same major with him. He had been immediately smitten by her beauty and proceeded to talk to her.

She had her reservations about him for reasons being that they were of different financial and social lives. Being the son of DeVille and the heir, Logan carried a number of friends. Many people wanted to be him, wanted to be like him, and wanted to associate with him.

He was the talk from de
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