“That’s right. My old man paid for all the ransom and waved it off as your father borrowing from him. The debt contract that my old man showed you was drafted and signed then. I don’t know this for sure, but my father probably didn’t want any of the money back. To him, he was just helping out a friend. Back then the Torex business isn’t the size that it is today so that money was a significant amount,” Hayden explained before grinning at me.

“I never knew this. Your father showed me a clause in the contract that I had to marry a member of the gang of his...