“Some may say that I ruined your life.”

“Some may say that after everything I’ve put you through.. after everything that I’ve taken from you, that I have left you with nothing. They think that I have stripped you of everything. Your superiors, your loved ones, your championships.”

“Around every corner I’ve been there. Lurking in the shadows, waiting to pounce and put my foot across your throat. Waiting to take something else from you, even if it’s just your pride.”

“But while all of Arcadia may think that I’ve been the man holding you back all of the years, what I’ve done is turn you into someone your real father can possibly be proud of.”

“That’s what you’ve always wanted, isn’t it Jackson? You’ve always been the type that would strive to be successful all to make daddy proud. But George kept you soft. Your whole life, you’ve been trying to appease the wrong man.”

“While you fought tooth and nail to make your first father figure proud, he worked behind the scenes to ‘keep his boy safe.’ He made sure that you grew up to respect the law. To abide by the book. It wasn’t me that was holding you back, Jackson. It was George Cade.”

“Your real father wanted nothing to do with you. He had seen how you were raised. He saw the soft green-horn that you were when you first walked through the doors of OSW. He looked at the frail young man that stood there on day one and he shook his head in disgust.”

“In the state that you were in, you were never going to be able to take the reigns. You were never going to live up to his standards. And you damn sure wouldn’t be ready to lead Arcadia when it was your time. To him, the moment you walked through those doors, your real father considered you dead to him.”

“But I saw what he didn’t. That man that he needed you to be. The one that could make those tough decisions, even when they result in the loss of a loved one.. he was in there. Buried deep under the dirt that George had piled onto him, he was there.”

“That monster has always been inside you, Jackson. I simply gave you the nudge.”

“And look at you now. You’re one simple task from taking the throne.”

“I made you, Jackson.”

“I shaped you into a man that Zeus could be proud of.”

“All you got to do is finish the job. Become the monster that I saw all those years ago.”

“At Red Snow, one way or another the masterpiece I’ve been working on for all these years gets finished.”

“It’s kill or be killed now, Little Eagle.”

“You will either slay the beast that’s taken everything from you. Or you will die by the very blade that beheaded your mother. The same one that was forged in your dear little brother’s bone.”

“Make the decision, Jackson.”

“Or I will break you just as easily as I made you.”