...A CUT FROM THE PAST

Marcus, Jayda's father and Maxwell, Fred's father, were very good friends. They had been friends right from middle school till they became grown up men.

Maxwell happened to be a mafia leader which Marcus was fully aware of but still didn't want to end their friendship. Samantha pleaded with Marcus to never be friends with Maxwell and to never let their children or family have any form of relationship with him, not anything to do with him.

Samantha wasn't fully aware of anything about Maxwell because she only heard about him from Marcus.

Maxwell, being a mafia leader, was extremely rich. Marcus, on the other...