Hobert sighed at Will's earnest expression. "Why do this, Will?"
"Which part do you mean?"
"Why do it this way?"
"Simple. If I didn't show them my strength, I couldn't achieve what I wanted.
"Uncle Hobert, if you hadn't been there, I would've used the Imperius Curse on the entire Howard family. But then it would've been hard to get them to use their abilities to help me."
That was the drawback of the Imperius Curse, and why Will didn't much want to use it.
"Will, you never told me you were capable of this." Hobert shook his head. "You've really surprised me."
"Sometimes it's better to keep your abilities hidden, isn't it?" Will smiled.
"I'm your uncle, Will. You had to hide it even from me?" Hobert treated him just as he always had. What had happened tonight hadn't driven a wedge between them.
As far as Hobert was concerned, it didn't matter as long as Will didn't try to hurt any family members besides Edward. Edward had brought it on himself. Who had told him to father a child and then refuse to raise him?
"You never asked before, Uncle Hobert." Will was glad things stood that way.
"Ah, never mind. I can't believe the old man was willing to give me money to set up the Game Company because of you." Hobert eagerly pulled out his phone. "Oh, right! I have to tell Lina about this!"
"Lina?" Will had no idea who that was. Hobert kept in touch with eleven women at once.
Once, Will had heard him rattling off names: Sienna, Lenora, Juliet, Eugenie...
Will hadn't known what he was doing. Then, that evening, Hobert had introduced him to woman after woman in a private room at a restaurant.
After that, Will had stopped paying attention