CHAPTER 20

　　DRAKE’S POV 　　Everything had gone differently from how it was planned. The wedding was put on indefinite hold till whenever Max would be fine, and now Betty’s kidnap. 　　It had been too much for me to process that Maxwell was Ace's son. Finding out has been hurting. Betty wasn’t even planning on telling me, even after I proposed. I was angry. Angry at Betty for keeping such a thing away from me and Angry at Ace. He always seemed to have his way eventually, but I vowed to do everything to make him fail. 　　Betty had panicked the entire week about Max's condition and had even gone to Ace to beg, but the bastard didn’t even budge. Even though I was angry at the revelation about Max's paternity, I still wanted to be with her, but I needed to get Ace and Maxwell out of the way. 　　I wanted to be with Betty alone without any reason for Ace to claim her, so I decided to kill Max. It was a very hard decision as Maxwell was a very sweet child, but I just had to do it. 　　It wasn’t easy. Betty has