Her Revenge Was His Regret (Shirley and Gilbert) novel Chapter 433

"But what came after was worse than dealing with a loan shark. Even a loan shark would've been shocked—and the cost kept getting passed down, generation after generation."

It was basically doing all the hard work just to hand everything over to someone else.

And you couldn't even speak up about it.

If you tried, they'd throw it back in your face. "We're the ones who invested back then. Without us, you wouldn't be where you are today."

"I'm not just venting here, but with the Whites acting like that... did anyone ever fight back?" Sure, they handed out plenty of money, but shouldn't that have settled any debt by now?

"I mean, if someone put in just a small share—maybe a few hundred grand—and then expected millions back... who wouldn't lose it over that?"

"The money wasn't really the main issue," Lucas said. "It was the unspoken rules nobody could live with. Living under the Whites' shadow for generations? Fine, maybe. But they turned families against each other—made everyone enemies."

It forced his parents to live on the run, hiding all over the world, always watching their backs in case the Whites sent someone to stir up trouble.

"You're not wrong, though. A lot of people couldn't take it. Plenty in the White family ended up dead over the years. But it never touched the core, because the main branch always kept their hands clean.

"The dirty work fell to the side branches. If they got wiped out, so be it—no one traced it back to the real family behind it. You could never connect it to the actual Whites.

"They kept their distance on purpose. Massacring entire bloodlines the way people did long ago was no longer practical. Frankly, taking out the whole White clan wasn't worth the trouble—it was next to impossible anyway."

"Then why did they claim Julia? She wasn't even a White."

"But Julia was the only one who could legally control the Harrison family. My parents only had one son. If they couldn't get to my parents, of course they'd come for me."

Hearing it laid out like that, taking over the Harrison family sounded like a trap—whoever stepped into it was signing up for a disaster.

But the Harrisons had sacrificed too much—blood, sweat, tears—for their name to just walk away from it all.

No wonder Lucas hadn't spelled it out clearly before.

If word got around, the Harrison family would be torn apart by rival factions in no time.

"So with the Whites and Julia...

"Are you going to marry Julia, then?"

Obviously, he couldn't just disappear like his parents did. Someone had to hold things down.

Unless Lucas had a kid to carry the Harrison name forward.

But he wasn't even old enough to marry, let alone arrange for an heir.

And because Lucas wasn't of age yet, the Whites hadn't pushed too hard. Otherwise, with their methods...

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