The empire will fall.

You will spend the rest of your life in a cell, and you will have earned it.”

The study was utterly silent except for the old man’s voice and the rain on the glass.

“But if you accept her,” Hollis read.

“If you acknowledge Juliet as your sister, and step away from the criminal enterprise I built, and use what remains of our fortune to protect her and to care for your mother in her final days — then the trust delivers to you full and legal control of Hale Enterprises, its history washed clean through a blind foundation, the dark money surrendered and the legitimate wealth preserved.

The choice, my son, is entirely yours.