C455 Enduring for More than Ten Years

"It's certainly unusual, but if he's a bastard, he might've been clueless about being the Ballard family's secret son. Thinking he was just a nobody, it wouldn't be odd for him to play the flunky for someone like Saxon. Dignity matters, but survival matters more," Riped countered.

"That's a plausible theory, but it doesn't hold up," Serenity Lawson disagreed, shaking her head