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Elaine spoke to me about asking for my father’s help. They somehow had a notion that the only thing that was protecting them from your wrath was the council.
They had copies of sanctions and orders you signed, which resulted in huge suffering in other regions.
The latest they had was that of the east.
You took the eastern leader’s mate for yourself, and they told me you could do the same to my mother.
They said it was common practice, and every region had suffered that form of injustice.
They had documents with your signature authorising war and killings simply because people refused to agree to your requests. They made you seem like a monster, and the truth was, soon, I wasn’t torn about it anymore; I believed them.
It started looking more like our world would be better if you and your officers were no longer in power and the council was the one in charge, and I felt it would be a great prospect.
One day I took a leap of faith and asked them how I could help. They said being the future heir of my family, I was already helping.
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.
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Even Elaine started treating me like a child, so I decided to prove myself to her.
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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
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.
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I gave Liam a minute because he started crying after his last sentence.
One thing I noticed was that he did not know their last names. Which meant they were not planning to keep him for long. The names he had might be aliases. It was sad.
“She had moved out. It was as if she was never there. All the photos of her were gone, her clothes. Her emails in my inbox, and the ones I sent to her.
They logged me out of my account in the Friendzone app, and everyone had cut off.
She left a note telling me I had been made and was being watched.
I panicked and decided that I should run away too.
That was when I got arrested,” Liam said, and I was silent for a bit.
I looked at Marcel and Raphael; they also seemed to be sorry for him. What he told us was helpful.
We knew they had a leader called Moses. Hopefully, that was his real name; if not, then at least he knew what Moses looked like, but what baffled me was how they had copies of orders and sanctions I had presumably signed.
Were they real or fabricated? I remembered what Cindy was doing for them, and I wondered if she was creating sanctions using my seal all along.
After what she did, I wouldn’t put that type of behaviour past her.
“Can you tell me your mother’s role in all this because she seemed to let you have your way all the time,” I said, trying to throw him off my suspicion, but his eyes said he knew, and he suddenly became tight- lipped.
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“I know you think you may be protecting her. But if she has a hand in this, then she isn’t worth your protection. She must have seen you as dispensable for her to allow you to get mixed in this shit.
Think about who you are protecting, Liam, and ask yourself if they are worth it. Look around you. It is just the four of us here, and you are the only one in chains,” I said, pointing at his cuffs, and he looked at them.
He had an internal battle.
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