“My dad was a gay?!” Vincent clenched his fists, “Am I right?”
Gordon felt stunned, but then he laid down on the chair.
He looked into Vincent’s suspicious eyes, he clenched his fists, and he looked like he’s holding on to something. He stared at Vincent. Vincent was Eric’s son, he inherited Eric’s intelligence and wisdom, but he wasn’t soft and indecisive like his dad, he was strong and resolute, whenever he had doubts, he would keep asking and looking for the answer until he got it.
Vincent looked at Gordon in doubt, “The one my dad liked was Brian, the one he loved was Brian, didn’t he?”
“No!” There was a moment of hesitation in Gordon’s eyes.
“You lie!” Instead of believing in Gordon, Vincent sneered back. Vincent’s cold face and eyes were as sharp as a hawk and made him look cold and arrogant, he looked at Gordon’s frustrated face. “My dad loved Brian, as for you, you must have an indescribable relationship with my father. You –”
Gordon’s face changed. Vincent gazed at Gordon, Gordon’s face became pale, he didn’t say anything.
“You have a problem too! You were in love with my dad! Am I right?!” If what he guessed was correct, then this should be the case. “Actually, my father and you both had the potential. Both of you were bisexual, so both of you had your own wives. But in those days, you and my father’s feelings were not recognized, and neither of you even dared to say how you truly felt. So you got married, had a wife and children, but both of you were also harming the life of the wife and children, both of you were equally selfish! Among the three of you, only Brian was heterosexual, am I right? My father couldn’t love the one he loved, that was why he was miserable and depressed, in the end he went on, to the dead end.”
“Brian felt sorry for my father because he wasn’t gay, he couldn’t respond to my father’s abnormal secret love, and you were best friends, as close as brothers, that was why you three felt very painful! My father passed away, Brian felt guilty towards my father, after all, you were all good friends, and you, you liked my father, so you felt heartache. Director Gordon, am I right?”
Gordon was a little absent-minded with the complicated emotions he felt.
His silent acquiescence made Vincent feel heartache as though his heart were torn apart. Was my dad that kind of person?
Vincent’s handsome face could no longer remain calm.
Finally, Gordon murmured, “Vincent, what you guessed is right! That’s right. Yes, I did have unspeakable feelings for your father, but we remained our friendship as it was and never talked about it! I’ve never told him my feelings. I never thought that you could see how I feel inside, I don’t deny it.”
“You never told him?” Vincent was a bit surprised.
“Do you know why Brian won’t tell you the truth??”
“Why?”
“Because he wants you to remember your father as a perfect and great person, not someone with abnormal feelings! Therefore, he has never explained anything, and because he promised your father that he would not say it out, even though he thought it was only brotherhood for your father. Vincent, Brian is an indomitable man and a good mayor. He feels guilty towards your father because your father confessed to him the day before his death and told him his depressed feelings. In addition to the mine disaster, your father only said those words after drinking. Brian has rejected your father; he told your father that the love and feeling he felt was just an illusion. Otherwise, how could he marry your mother? But no one thought that… on the next day, your father left…”
“So the truth is really like this!” Vincent’s dropped his shoulder, “My father, he was someone like this.”
He couldn’t believe it. He felt a sense of suffocation going stronger inside his heart.
So this was the truth, his father was like this, his father loved a man, no wonder his father was so indifferent towards his mother and himself, no wonder he was always frowning.
Everything that happened in the past slowly faded away from his heart bit by bit, he was wrong!
The so-called revenge between him and his mother turned out to be so ridiculous! However, he could not repay his guilt and debt towards the Hunter family even if he died.
Vincent’s heart was throbbing with pain. His gloomy face was entangled with pain, he felt that his heart was swallowed up by the pain little by little. He was wrong! He’s sorry towards Brian, sorry towards Macey, sorry towards Leila!
“Let your mother go! Your mother didn’t know all this, she may have had doubts, but she didn’t know how your father was! So, don’t let her know what I have just told you! Save your father his last dignity!”
Vincent didn’t know how he left Gordon’s office.
In the ward.
Gordon was reporting to Brian everything that had happened just now, little did they know, coincidentally, Leila came with the thermal pot to deliver soup to Brian, she heard Gordon’s words, in that moment, her mind went blank. It turned out that this was the truth.
Leila’s mind was in a mess, her face was as pale as a paper, and her heart was feeling bitter. She heard what Director Gordon said to her father, and Vincent had already found out the truth. Her brain felt like getting hit by a thunder, she stepped back and leaned against the wall.
So this was the truth! In order to save Eric’s dignity, her father actually sacrificed her sister and her for him. Do I blame him? But what for?
Not sooner or later. That’s just what happened. Who was wronged? Who was really wrong?!
And Vincent, could he bear the blow?
Did he know this was how his father took the blow?
Leila was still standing there, like a rooted tree, standing at the door of the ward for a long time. She couldn’t calm her emotion.
She pressed her cheeks with her hands. Her hands were cold. She felt that her throat was like being strangled, she murmured to herself, “The truth was really so absurd.”
After being puzzled for a short while, she held her breath and calmed her mood, she knocked on the door and walked into the ward as if nothing happened just now. Since her father wanted to hide the truth and keep his promise for Vincent, as his daughter, it’s best for her to not ask anything.
She was afraid that if she asked, she would get hurt.
At least, her dad was not the murderer. He didn’t deliberately hurt Vincent’s father like what she imagined. Then that’s enough.
Inside the Sea Hotel.
Vincent lied on the bed and looked up at the ceiling.
All day long, he didn’t eat or drink. His mind was empty and confused. The sky has already turned dark, and the room has become dark. Only a small table lamp on the desk was on, and a small white ceramic angel on the lamp was still standing quietly.
Vincent looked at the little angel figurine, he tried to concentrate his thoughts, but his thoughts were a mess. He closed his eyes bitterly.
Many things had happened one after another in the past few days, they were shocking and they caught him off guard.
Since he came back from meeting Director Gordon, he just laid down on the bed. He felt that he needed to be quiet. The guilty feeling he had for Leila, for the Hunter family was overwhelming.
He got up from the bed, came to the window and stood in silence. The night sky shined on him and made his figure look like a lonely and cold statue.
He looked at the distant sea with cold eyes. Was his life a joke?!
Father was such a person, and he himself was such a superficial person. He made Leila and Macey the victims of the so-called enmity between the White family and the Hunter family.
Nobody could turn back time and the damage that had been done could not be made up again.
Under the night sky, the phone rang.
Vincent took a deep breath and suppressed the pain in his heart. He let his facial expression return to coldness. He saw the phone number, it’s Charles Read. He didn’t answer the call. His eyes gradually turned cold and gloomy. The night sky was becoming darker and darker.
At the White Group.
The sun shined into the room.
The room was filled with cold air. Vincent sat behind the black desk, the sunshine shined on his back and made him look dazzling, but his face that was against the sunlight seemed even colder.
“President, this is the information you want.”
Ted put a folder on his desk. Vincent opened the folder silently. It was a thick analysis report with some photos in it. Vincent looked at the young man in the photo, he closed his lips tight. It was a picture of Ben Jordan.
After a long silence, Vincent leaned back into the leather chair. He closed his eyes and think.
After a long time, Vincent took a deep breath, turned on the phone and called Charles Read, “Come to my company!”
Just one sentence. Half an hour later, Charles appeared in Vincent’s office.
A bunch of documents were smashed on Charles’ face, and the documents fell on the ground. Charles saw the photo dropped directly beside his shoes, there was a beautiful young boy in the photo, it was him, long ago, he was called Ben Jordan.
“You’ve investigated me?” Charles said and squatted down to pick up the photos on the floor.
“Yes! Your father, Seth was not promoted to an important position back then, so he wanted to take revenge on Brian. The revenge we talked about was in fact just a farce, in fact it was all about desire!”
“Because of promotion?” Obviously, Charles was shocked, “It’s impossible!”
“Read it yourself!” Vincent pointed to the documents on the ground.
Charles picked up the documents and browsed quickly. He read the reports collected by Vincent, and it turned out…
He always thought that Brian was taking revenge on his father because his father used to be Eric’s subordinate. How could it be his father who was the one taking revenge on Brian? And the boss, Nora… How was that possible?
Charles was stunned, his face turned pale, and he felt the pain of being cheated spread from his mind. He felt like his mind had burst and was tearing him apart.
He felt the cold darkness in front of him, “How could my father lie to me?”
Charles’ chest felt like it’s burning, the pain from the bottom of his heart made his lips pale as a sheet of paper. After a long time, when the darkness in his mind gradually dissipated, his fingers had already crumpled the paper.
He looked at Vincent gloomily, “How could that be?”
“Why couldn’t it be? My mother has lied to me too!” Vincent yelled. The sadness that he felt in his heart was no less than Charles’. “We were just pawns in our parents’ hands, your dad lied to you, my mother lied to me. The revenge they talked about was just to fulfill their own selfish desires. That’s all. It turned out that everything was just a farce from beginning!”
“A chess piece!” Charles murmured, “We’re just their pawns?”
“Charles, go to Tokyo with my mother!” Vincent tried to calm down and said indifferently, “The damage we caused is irreparable now. Macey has become the victim of this incident, and we were wrong! We were very wrong! Brian didn’t harm my father at all! He didn’t harm your father too, so stop everything right now and don’t make any mistakes again!”