His your step father, your mom married him just for his money, and he do know about it but he only let her cause once the time is right... He'll take you, yes take you because he likes you, despite his age on his 30's he's still attractive looking only on his 20's, even at young girls would stare and admire his features. Right, he also had an adopted daughter named Ericka, she doesn't like you obviously because she's afraid you're taking her spot as the heiress so she keep messing with you and made up things to make Jake hate you.