"I was ambushed multiple times on my way back from the ancestral land. They all seemed to be expendable assassins from some mysterious organization—the kind that will do anything for money."
"Then I come home to find Mother in this state. If you weren't planning to make me your successor, why would Dianna Hale and Alan Cross have any reason to get involved?"
Jasper Cross narrowed his eyes, staring at the son before him who bore a striking resemblance to himself. "You should know that I've never taken that mother and son seriously. Even though your mother has refused to see me all these years, I haven't gone to see Dianna Hale even once."
"If that's the case, why didn't you deal with Dianna Hale long ago?"
"She is your older brother's mother, after all."
"If you can't run the Cross family, then step down as Family Head. If anything else happens to my mother, Dianna Hale will die. And as for that eldest son of yours, I'll kill him all the same."
