Chapter 386

Jack didn't understand why I would do what I did. I scoffed. "What father would treat their daughter as something that could be exchanged for money? I assume your beloved wife and daughter had never once come to visit you, right?" Elene and Ivy had seemed to be long gone. These two women were the truly smart ones. Out of sight, out of mind. After Jack was thrown in prison, it was really the case for this mother-daughter duo. Jack's eyes grew distant and bleary like he was looking through the fortress of time into the net that he had intricately woven but could not control. "Did you think that I wanted this to happen?" he asked. "I tried to protect you two as well, but in this humongous chain of profit hierarchy, I'm nothing but a puny pawn." I took a deep breath as I tried to calm the chaos in my heart. "What's the real secret, then? What's the scam that you had mentioned about?" He was silent for a while, like he was contemplating something before he spoke again. "The art gal