Chapter 72

"He's no longer alive, Jacky." Your father is no longer alive. He committed suicide shortly after we discovered his lair. "He'd been torturing rogues in the dungeons for years," she explained. "What am I supposed to do now?"

"Perhaps you should leave there and come stay with us for a while." Continue your stay with Calib.

"They could make use of you," I explained.

"I don't want to be around such new babies." What a shambles this will be. A suicide after a year of suffering. The council is now meeting. "I think they're blaming me," she sobbed.

"You don't have to deal with the council, Mother." "Just disband them," I said.

"I couldn't do it even if I wanted to," she explained.

I began to cry once I hung up with my mum. Not for himself, but for the guy I knew as my father. My beloved, who had raised me, had died. Even though dad had been gone for some time, the loss I felt was overpowering.

"How could you do that, Jacky," Viktor roared into the room.