章 126: The Party

Tony patted her hand and kissed it. 

"Tony, was it because I hit Mellon Paul gained an ally?" she asked.

Tony didn't tell her anything about that afterward. She thought there would be some mediation between the enraged family and her side but nothing of that sort happened. 

She thought that Tony might have dealt with it secretly but now she wondered if something else happened. 

"I think his family…" Tony let out a deep breath. "I heard from a reliable source that he was adopted into the family and Randy told me that there was a rumor back then that one of Mellon's sons adopted his sister's bastard son. The patriarch didn't want his daughter to raise a bastard and she was not willing to give him up and so they reached a compromise."

"Oh?" Marcella was shocked. "I remember reading an obituary of one of the Mellon daughters recently. She still had her maiden name. Is she, his mother?"