Keifer's POV
The moment the doors of the Fernandez mansion shut behind her—
The silence hit the room like a storm after thunder.
No one moved.
No one spoke.
I kept my eyes on the door.
On the place where she had disappeared just seconds ago.
The last thing I saw was her back.
Straight.Cold.Unshaken.Like she had already erased all of us from her life.
Then I got up and headed for the door while the rest of section e moved behind me. As we left and leaned towards our cars I felt nothing but emptiness inside me.
The Cin exhaled loudly beside me.
"Well… that escalated pretty bad."
Felix scoffed under his breath.
"You think?"
Edrix rubbed the back of his neck.
"Dude she just divorced her entire family."
No one laughed.
Because the truth was—None of us expected that.I slowly uncrossed my arms and stood up.The movement felt heavy.Like gravity had doubled.Across the house I could see through the window, Aries was staring at the same door.His jaw tight.His eyes darker than usual.
None of this was supposed to reach this point.None of it.
David finally looked at me.
"It was not good. It's bad really bad isn't it!?"
It wasn't a question.I didn't bother denying it.
For a moment—Just a moment—When she looked at me with those empty eyes…
The truth had nearly come out.
Everything.The plan.The threats.The reason I destroyed her.But I didn't.Because if she knew—She would never be safe again.
Felix kicked lightly at the marble floor.
"So… what now?"
No one answered.Because the truth was—This mess started long before tonight.Long before the classroom humiliation.Long before Jay even entered our lives.
It started with my father.
Kaizer Watson.
The man who built Watson Industries.The man who controlled everything.The man who hated me.Not quietly.very openly.
Every Watson gathering was the same.Long tables.Expensive suits.And eyes watching me like I didn't belong.Because according to them I didn't deserve to be at the table
One night a week ago, my father summoned me to the Watson estate.
I already knew it wouldn't be pleasant.It never was.The moment I walked into the main hall—
The elders were there.All of them.Seven men sitting like judges.And my father standing at the head of the table.
His expression cold.Disappointed.Like always.
"Well," one elder said mockingly.
"The heir has finally arrived."
Another laughed.
"Tell me, Keifer… are you busy playing boyfriend at school these days?"
My jaw tightened.
But I didn't react.
Reacting only made it worse.
My father slowly placed a photograph on the table.
It slid across the polished wood toward me.
I looked down.
It was Jay.
Standing beside me outside the academy gates.
Laughing.
The room filled with quiet chuckles.
"How cute," one elder said.
"The future heir of Watson Industries… distracted by a girl."
Another leaned forward.
"A Fernandez girl, no less."
The way they said her name made my stomach twist.
Like she was something dirty.
Something disposable.
My father finally spoke.
His voice low.
Sharp.
"You're weak just like you're pathetic mother."
The word hung in the air like a blade.
"You think we don't see what's happening?"
My hands clenched slightly.
But I kept my face blank.
One elder tapped the photo.
"This girl is becoming your weakness."
Another added casually—
"And weaknesses are dangerous."
My chest tightened.
Because I already knew where this conversation was going.
My father stepped closer.
"You want the Watson inheritance?"
His eyes bored into mine.
"Then act like it."
Silence filled the room.
Then the oldest elder spoke.
"If you want to keep your position as heir…"
He leaned back slightly.
"…cut the girl out."
My throat felt dry.
"And if I don't?"
A quiet laugh spread around the table.
My father's smile was the coldest of them all.
"Then we handle the problem ourselves."
The meaning was obvious.Painfully obvious.
The Watson family destroyed problems.They didn't negotiate with them.They didn't warn twice.
And Jay—Jay would never survive that world.
When I left that estate that night—I felt something inside me snap.I went straight to the only people I trusted with the truth.
Section E.
We met in the abandoned basketball court behind the school.
Cin noticed immediately something was wrong.
"You look like hell."
Felix tossed me a water bottle.
"What happened?"
I told them everything.
The elders.
My father.
The threats.
Jay.
The silence after that was heavy.
Blaster cursed first.
"Those old bastards."
Rory kicked a chair across the court.
"So they basically told you to choose."
I nodded once.
David spoke quietly.
"They'll hurt her."
Not a question.
A fact.
"Yes."
No one argued.Because we all knew the Watson family's reputation.
Eren crossed his arms.
"So what's the move?"
I looked at the ground for a moment.
Then said the words that would destroy everything.
"We push her away."
Cin frowned.
"How?"
I forced myself to say it.
"We make her hate me."
Felix stared at me.
"You're serious."
"It's the only way we need to reveal the plan..."
If the Watson family believed Jay meant nothing to me—She wouldn't be a target anymore.Just another random girl at school.
Blaster rubbed his face.
"Damn…"
Rory sighed.
"She's gonna be destroyed."
I didn't respond.
Because that part…
I already knew.
And that's how the plan started.The insults.The laughter.The humiliation in the classroom.Every single part of it was deliberate which later turned into something unrecognizable...
Every word I said to her—
"I used you."
"I never loved you."
All lies.
Necessary lies.
But tonight—Watching her stand in that mansion…Watching her legally erase the Fernandez family from her life…
I realized something terrible.We pushed her away to protect her.But in doing that—We turned her into someone none of us recognized.
I stared at the door one last time.
The place where she had disappeared.
Because the truth none of them said out loud—Was the one thing haunting my mind.
The girl I tried to protect tonight…Is gone.
And the woman who walked out of that mansion—Jasper Jean Mariano—Looked powerful enough to burn the entire world down.
Including me...