Fate's Dark Side Chapter 281

They made me feel like a child, and I wanted to prove myself badly. Moses teased me about living in a hostel under my father's watch, and they could not trust me with specific responsibilities.

Even Elaine started treating me like a child, so I decided to prove myself to her.

I called my mother and demanded that I was sixteen, and according to the laws in Gad, I was allowed to own my own place.

She did not argue with me, but my father kicked against it.

We were at it for a bit, and my mother came to Gad to see who I would share the apartment with.

She liked Elaine immediately, and finding out she was an orphan made my mother feel sorry for her. Soon my mother was able to help me move in with Elaine.

Other than kissing and watching television, we never did anything. I respected her, and she respected me too.

Soon they started giving me small responsibilities.

I would follow Moses to receive wire transfers and other stuff.

Knowing that I would be charged with that responsibility one day, Moses said I should request a false Id claiming that I would feel safe if I wasn't bearing my surname. I did as he told me, which was when my father drew the line.

I needed a parent's consent that came with my family seal for any agent to create a false Id for me because I was a minor, so my mother secretly consented, and that was how I became Liam Bricks.

One day Moses got agitated in the meeting and said you were onto the organisation, and you were coming to kill what was left of us.

I did not want anything to happen to Elaine and all her friends in the organisation, so I asked them to brainstorm and see how we could help. Moses now came up with the plan to make my father raise a petition to take you and your officers out of the office and place the council in charge. That way, you won't have the power to attack us, and everyone will be safe.

It was a good idea, except for the fact that my father had no reason to do so; unable to come up with a good cause, Elaine said we should pretend that I had been kidnapped. They should threaten to kill me and come for his family if he didn't do it.

She said if my father loved me truly, he would do it to save my life. I did not feel great about it, but I did not want to say no to Elaine. So we made a video of me in captivity begging my father to do whatever they asked if he wanted me to come home.

It was a believable video, and it was sent to my father.

My father responded and promised to do as they asked as long as they showed him proof of life every day. They agreed, and he went to work.

One day I returned home, and Elaine told me Moses was ill and that I should help receive a money transfer and wire it to a specific account.

She said the task was given to her, but she did not feel too good and needed to rest.

Wanting to please her, I did it and used my fake ID to receive the money. No one told me I wasn't to use it; in fact, Moses had implied I needed the Id for that very purpose.

I had already used it when a clerk at the bank said they usually used secret words to accept the transfer from the client.

I did not think much of it.

I wired it to the anonymous account that Elaine asked me to wire it to.

I returned home that day, only to find that she had left the apartment," he said, and his tears fell freely. He felt used, and he knew exactly what had happened to him.