Although Esta having a clue didn't make it sure, it still meant that there was quite a chance of Jayden being the guy, right?
Royce couldn't just help the shock... He hadn't reacted that way because of the long enmity between him and Jayden... Not because Jayden sent him away and took all his father's properties, because of course he knew he deserved it.
He had reacted that way because... because it was simply obvious.
Royce just couldn't have any doubts after remembering how Jayden rose from nothing, rising to the top of the city in a matter of weeks, and how he became a billionaire so suddenly before his eyes.
How he took down every single person that harmed his family, and how he became President of Nortasia.
Those recollections hit him hard, and it took him quite some time to digest the feeling.