My jaw goes slack, I am mortified. "Take that back!" I point at Oliver.

He sighs and pinches the bridge of his nose, "You aren't remotely close to who Dad was, a ruthless beast to anyone who crossed him."

"He was a businessman, he ought to have been ruthless otherwise..." I say.

"He made me watch him beat a man that had betrayed him. I was only four and that was just the beginning of the horrific incidents he forced me to be part of. And you think I would want that life again?" He shakes his head.

My father was a gentleman, he would never hurt a fly. A...