Chapter 171: Love and Obsession

Adolph narrowed his eyes down at Olivia. She was just as pretty as she had been before, but he saw the wicked light in her eyes.

“Shouldn’t you be greeting our son whom you’ve never met?” Adolph asked.

She smiled at him, poisonous and vicious, “I would never put anyone before you dear husband.”

“You are dead,” Adolph said, “Speak to Basil.”

“… very well.”

Olivia turned her head and looked at Basil. Adolph was about to retract his statement at the hopeful look on Basil’s face, but it was too late.

“You asked them to kill the man who raised you,” Olivia said, “You asked for the death penalty.”

“Mother, they—”

“Don’t call me that!” Olivia hissed at him. “All of them. Murdered and for what? What of your loyalty to me?”

Basil’s eyes widened, “To you…?”

“After what your father did to me?” Olivia said, “What is a bit of money?”

“You… You knew?” Basil asked. “But—”

“I love your father,” she said, her eyes glimmering with tears. “But… that wasn’t good enough. My love was never good enough f