#Chapter 245: Who Holds All the Power

“I’d worried when I had heard you were in the hospital,” Alpha King Hayes said through the phone. “You should have called me and told me of your condition. I would have done everything in my power to have helped.” Oh, what a cruel, vicious man. How I would love to give him the verbal thrashing of a lifetime. But, with Archer’s warning fresh in my ear, and his hand on my arm, physically pulling me backwards away from the phone, I am quickly reminded that I need to keep my mouth shut here. “I believe I experienced some of your specific kind of help, Father,” Neil says. “One of the doctors was very generous with the drugs intended to keep me in a coma.” “My oldest son wouldn’t actually believe that I had anything to do with that,” Alpha King Hayes said. “I wouldn’t?” “Not the dutiful son you used to be. I suppose you have changed in the past few months. You’ve become a man I cannot recognize. A man who does not respect his father, and therefore earns little respect in turn.” “Did yo