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I look toward him.There’s a conflict inside him.Something that resonates with my own story.
“What do I do?Are you saying I should I just abandon him?Just leave him to rot?”
“The man is overly dependent on you, Clara.And sometimes people need to lose everything before they take responsibility for themselves and make a change.”
“I don’t see how being in jail is going to help him.”
“Maybe he can’t be helped,” he says, looking off into the distance as he runs a hand through my hair.“Not everyone gets a happy ending, Clara.It’s sad, but it’s the truth.”
“He’s my father.He’s family.I need to try.”
“Does he deserve your help?”
I cock an eyebrow and look at him in confusion.
“Maybe it’s my personal experience speaking, but if someone is such a wreck outside the home, they’re usually one inside of it too.Has he wronged you?With his words?His hands?Or even worse?”
I grit my teeth, a tear coming to my eye.“He’s done his fair bit of shaming.And I’ve felt the back of his hand for talking back to him.”
Sebastian’s fists curl as he hears me speak.“Let him go.He is not your problem, Clara.He forfeited the loyalty his blood bought him when he laid a hand on you, if not before that.”
The tears stream down my face.I’m not sobbing, but I can’t stop the waterworks either.He may have a point.“He’s the only family I’ve ever known though.”
“Then maybe you should find a new family.”
I continue to look up at him, even as he stares forward.This is so unexpected.He’s been nothing more than a hot, rich guy with a voracious sexual appetite up until now.Saying he likes it rough.Saying I can’t handle everything he wants to give me.
I didn’t expect him to come in here and try to comfort me.
And what’s more?
I didn’t expect to look at him and see someone who may be as broken as I am.
I nibble my lip for a moment, building up the courage to ask my question.“Are you speaking from experience, Sebastian?Has your own father brought you so much trouble?”
He lets out a sigh, continuing to pet me and hold me.“Is that any of your business?”
I push my luck.I climb into his lap and look right into his eyes.“I told you my pain.Now you tell me yours.”
He runs his hand through his hair, his lip quivering.“My father...he was the scum of the earth.”
“What did he do?”
“Horrible things.Sick things.Twisted things.Not much of it legal.”
“What do you mean?I heard the Montgomery family was big in the finance industry.”
“We were.Long ago.”
Sebastian’s eyes close.His first instinct is to not talk about this, but something inside him is pushing him forward.Urging him to open up to me.
“My father didn’t have much talent for the family business, so he went another direction to keep the money flowing.He did things that the law wouldn’t smile on.”
“Like what?”I listen intently.I need to be as sensitive a listener as he was.
“He financed gun running.Drug trafficking.Human trafficking.He had no sense of morality and only cared about building back the millions he lost when he was trying to run the family business on the level.He stepped on so many toes in the black market on his way to being wildly profitable there, and he made many enemies.”
I stare at him.“That’s all so horrible.And I’m guessing he involved you?”
