Novel & Cerita Father Blackwood

“Blackwood Global controls half the industries this family touches. Do you understand what that debt has cost us in leverage for thirty years? Richard Blackwood is offering to erase it. All you have to do is sign.” “All I have to do.” I picked up the folder despite myself, because some numb, obedient part of me still hadn’t learned to say no to them. My fingers found the first page. Damian Blackwood’s name sat there in dense black print, cold and unfamiliar, a man I’d only ever seen in tabloid photographs, always in shadow, always described in the same three words. *Cold. Ruthless. Untouchable.* “They say he’s never even been photographed smiling,” I said quietly.

"I borrowed money. For the restaurant. We were going to lose everything, and I thought I could turn things around." "From who? The mob?" I laughed bitterly, but their expressions confirmed my worst fears. "Oh my god, you actually borrowed from criminals?" "The Blackwood family," Mom whispered. "Alpha Dominic came yesterday to collect." My knees weakened, forcing me to grip the back of a chair for support. Everyone knew about the Blackwoods—the most powerful werewolf family in the region, ruthless in business and worse in their personal dealings. "This is insane," I hissed. "You can't just trade me like I'm property! I have rights. I have a life, a future—"

Like the room itself was sedating me. Something was wrong, deeply wrong. And then, I was gone. Sleep pulled me into a nightmare far blacker than any dream I’d ever had. I was running. Through a forest of bones. Trees groaned like dying things, their branches grabbing at me like claws. Blood pooled at my feet, and I was barefoot, slipping through crimson mud. Voices screamed, familiar ones. Zevarion’s. My father’s. My own. Then hands, unseen but cold and sharp, dragged me backward. I fought, I clawed, I screamed, but the hands gripped tighter. And the deeper they pulled me, the darker it became.

I said and again, I was in a bone-crushing hug. “How is my daughter-in-law doing?” Sir Blackwood gave me a side hug. He was an hour earlier to the dinner he wanted to have with us—what brought me away from my parents' visit. We talked and I was surprised at how slowly I began to get comfortable around him. I found out about why Ethan feared his father so much. Sir Blackwood is in control of the whole Blackwood empire and disobeying him might lead to some ‘punishment’. Sir Blackwood was an interesting man and I managed to have a good laugh with him.

“ According to what I heard ,The father doesn’t care if the kid lives or dies he just wants him to get married and give him grand kids. Which by the way is no business of ours.” I frowned. Cold. But not surprising. That was the kind of world men like the Blackwoods lived in. Logan slid the file across the desk. I flipped it open. Alexander Blackwood IV. Age 29. CEO. Born into power. Educated in all the right places. A picture-perfect heir on paper. But the photo staring back at me wasn’t paper. It was a man. Sharp jaw. Piercing eyes. Arrogance in every line of his posture.

The city was still dark when Damian left Blackwood Tower. The conversation with the firefighter had ended nearly an hour earlier, but the words still echoed in his mind with unsettling clarity. Edward Blackwood. His grandfather. The founder of the Blackwood empire. A man who had built hospitals, research foundations, and entire industries in the name of medical advancement. A man Damian had once admired. And now possibly the man responsible for the chain of events that had nearly killed Evelyn. Damian drove through the quiet streets with the phone resting on the passenger seat beside him. The photograph the witness had sent remained open on the screen.

I groaned, making my mother and her father gasp. My father growled, standing up with anger, the corner of my lip tilting in satisfaction. "Sir, please w-wait," Blackwood sputtered. "We are done here, Blackwood. The future Mafia princess needs to have her honor intact. I will be collecting my goods back and my alliance from your company. You have just wasted my son's time." Father boomed, his rage shaking the room.

He moved with effortless confidence, like someone who'd never questioned his right to own everything he surveyed. Maya actually gasped and grabbed my arm. "Holy shit," she breathed. "Is that another Blackwood?" Harrison's posture stiffened slightly. "That would be Mr. Damien Blackwood, the first son of the Blackwood family." he said quietly.

“No.” His eyes darkened. “Out of respect, I did nothing. I let him keep his throne, but that's where I fucked up," he paused, "he sent men after me, but when they came, they found your mother, and killed her." Stephanie staggered back, the wall catching her weight. “I lost control,” Blackwood admitted, his voice trembled with something that almost sounded like grief. “That was when I took out Jace’s father and his mother. I didn’t want to, but he left me no choice.”

But we shared the same father and now we shared the same loss. "He suffered," Aston said as he led me inside. "Whoever killed him made sure of that." "Who was it?" "A wolf named Adnar Blackwood. He runs territory in the western region. Father encroached on his land and Blackwood retaliated." We sat in father's study and Aston told me everything. "He made an example," Aston said. His voice was cold and controlled. "He wanted everyone to know what happens when you cross him." I looked around the study. Father's books still lined the shelves. His desk was covered with papers he would never finish reading. His chair sat empty and would stay empty forever.