Lucas wanted to reject the call at first, but after some thought, he answered it and put it on speakerphone.
Soon, Michael’s voice came. “Lucas, I’ve been calling Jace, but I couldn’t get through. I think he doesn’t want to pick up. He probably blocked me. I beg you. Don’t kill him, okay?
“No matter what, he’s my son too. I don’t want to see you brothers killing each other! Lucas, I know I’m not worthy of being your father, but I still want to ask you. As long as you’re willing to spare his life, I’ll satisfy all your wishes! Even if you want to kill me now, you can take my life anytime you want!”
Michael’s voice was full of anxiousness and worry.
Lucas suddenly felt extremely aggrieved and enraged.
This man was his father!
Back then, he had a high fever because Jace had poured cold water on him. But he and his mother had been mercilessly driven out of the Huttons by Michael and that woman. Even when they had been sick, they had been denied entry, and Michael had ignored their life and death.
But now, Michael actually stooped so low to beg Lucas for the sake of Jace. He even wanted to exchange his own life for Jace’s.
Why?!
He was Michael’s son too!
Why was Michael so ruthless toward him and his mother back then but was now begging him to spare the life of his other son? Worse still, his other son had held Lucas’s loved ones hostage to threaten him and almost killed him.
Could it be that Jace was human, but Lucas wasn’t? Why was their treatment so different?!
At this moment, Lucas had a strong urge to rush toward Michael, grab him by the neck, and ask him what he and his mother meant to him.
If possible, Lucas even wanted to destroy the Huttons himself and make them experience the taste of being penniless and struggling to survive!
But Lucas couldn’t do this because his mother had requested him to spare the Huttons and not seek revenge on them before she passed away. Lucas had agreed with tears in his eyes. So even though he hated the Huttons and wished he could turn them into bottom feeders of society so that they could taste the suffering he and his mother had experienced, Lucas could only bear with it. After messing with the Huttons once, he didn’t do anything else and let them off.
Perhaps because Lucas had been silent for too long, Michael became even more flustered. “Lucas, are… are you still listening? I know that what happened back then was indeed my fault. I’ve let you and your mother down. If I could turn back time and choose again, I would have never let you two leave!
“Lucas, I’m sorry for what I did to let you down back then. My inappropriate handling of the situation caused you two to become enemies and things to end up like this. It’s all my fault, so I’m begging you not to kill Jace. Spare his life this time, and I’ll definitely take him in hand so that he will never create trouble for you again. Okay?”
Michael was actually begging him and even sobbing a little.
Because the speakerphone was on, Jace heard what Michael said.
At this moment, Jace’s mouth was wide open, and his face was in disbelief.
He had always thought that his father was more partial to Lucas, especially since Michael forced him to hand over the Stardust Corporation, which was worth over a billion dollars, to Lucas and even wanted to appoint Lucas as the next helmsman. So the other reason Jace hated Lucas was because he thought that Lucas had stolen Michael away from him and caused Michael to ignore him.
But after hearing Michael begging Lucas to let him go, Jace realized that he was incredibly wrong.
Lucas gritted his teeth, wavering a little.
Jace had abducted Charlotte, hurt William, and used the two of them as bargaining chips to threaten Lucas. He had even almost killed Cheyenne. Everything Jace had done had crossed Lucas’s bottom line, and he deserved to die several times!
Yet Michael was pleading for mercy for Jace. As a father himself, Lucas could understand how Michael felt at the moment.
On the one hand, Lucas hated Jace to the core and wanted to kill him immediately to eliminate any future troubles, while on the other, his biological father was begging him so humbly.
Lucas originally thought that he wouldn’t hesitate to reject Michael’s plea and kill Jace on the spot. But he now realized that he really couldn’t bring himself to be that cold and heartless.
If he really killed Jace, Michael would probably break down in misery.
He was already in his late fifties, and Lucas and Jace were his only children.
Lucas would never return to the Huttons or acknowledge Michael as his father. But if Jace really died, Michael would probably have no kin left in this world.
If his mother found out he did this, would she blame him for being too cruel to Michael?
But what Jace had done was truly unforgivable!
Lucas had had no intention of going to DC to seek revenge on Jace, but Jace kept provoking him time and time again. This time, he had even threatened Lucas with his loved ones to force him to play that ruthless game of Russian Roulette.
If not for the fact that Lucas had spent several years in the army and developed an elite set of skills, he would have probably shot himself or William, his father-in-law, dead by now.
Who had pleaded for mercy for him from Jace?
Besides, this time, even though he had arranged for people to protect his loved ones, Jace had still managed to abduct them.
Fortunately, he had turned the situation around and eliminated the danger. He had saved both Charlotte and William, and Cheyenne had been protected by Stanley.
However, what if something like this happened again, but he failed to protect them the next time?
If his most cherished family members were really killed by a scumbag like Jace, who would Lucas go to to beg for mercy?
At the thought of this, Lucas stopped wavering and became firm again.
No matter what, he would never allow anyone to hurt his loved ones. Anyone who did had to die!
