The room fell into silence as they absorbed the gravity of what Levi had just shared—the tangled web of lies and betrayal that had been woven through his life by a man who should have been his protector.
"I couldn't let that happen," Levi said, his voice steady yet tinged with an undercurrent of emotion. "I couldn’t allow them to take everything from him, so I made a promise to myself: I was going to take everything back from my father, from the people who hurt Everette before they could do it again."
