"Alex, do you think he will come?" I asked before getting ready to go.
"Well, it depends on him," said Alex looking around for something on my desk.
"what are you looking for?"
"Hmm.. the recorder, we might record it," he said with concern.
I see where he is coming from, but even if I say I don't agree, he has a point. After he found it we went to the place with ten minutes to spare.
Alex had booked a private room in the restaurant. As we will be able to speak freely. I kept on looking at the watch every few minutes as he was getting a bit late. A knock came on the door.
"Come in," said Alex.
Liam came in and shook hands with us. He looked a bit uneasy but firm as usual.
"Liam why did you harm my wife?" I asked as I couldn't hold on.
"Calm down, Ben. We'll talk things like gentlemen do," said Alex, as the waiter came in to take our order.
After the order was bought in we started to talk.
"Ben, I am sorry. I never wanted to harm Sarah in the way I did. I never wanted to harm that cute little baby girl, Dave loved so much," he said with tears in his eyes.
We both looked at each other. What was he saying?
"Ben I know she is your wife. I have followed her secretly ever since I had to kill her brother,"
"How do you know them?" asked Alex.
"I met Dave at a basketball match. He was a legend at that time. And he would always bring the little girl with him as she was their lucky charm," He said as he was going back in time.
"Dave was a great guy, but somehow my grandfather got to know about our friendship and threatened me to kill him, as revenge for your grandfather,"
"What?" I asked. I just couldn't believe I heard it right.
"Yes, he wanted to take revenge on your father through, Dave's father who was the most trusted partner your grandfather had. What my grandfather did work, after Dave's passing they left the city,"
"Why didn't you stop it?" asked Alex.
"My grandfather was a ruthless guy. If he says something you have to do it or else you end up in a bad shape," said Liam looking at us.
"He won't even spare you?" asked Alex.
"Do you know why my father limps?" he asked.
We just looked at him.
"My grandfather broke his leg because he didn't want to do something bad, so from that time he used me threatening to kill my father,"
"Oh my," I said.
"So he mentally abused you?" asked Alex.
The look on his face said it all. His grandfather was a ruthless man who never cared about anyone but his reputation and revenge. So he used the teenage Liam to achieve his goals. Later when he didn't want to do them he threaten to expose him as the person who did all the wrong things. That's why he had to harm Sarah at the request of their partner Smith.
"He had made the will, stating that if I don't take revenge from everyone, all the businesses and assets will be handed over to my cousin, Valdorin,"
"Who is he?" asked Alex.
"He's the leader of the Mafia, in Hill country," said Liam.
"Is he?"
"Yes, He's ruthless and his team is highly experienced,"
"So taking revenge for something no one did anything bad was his idea?" asked Alex.
"Well I really don't know the reason behind this and I wasn't able to find any clue," said Liam hoping we knew something.
"If we are being frank, we found out who was behind all these," I said.
"What do you mean?"
"We have all your grandfather's money embelezzed contracts," I clarified.
"You mean?"
"Yes he did all those but the blame on others," said Alex.
Liam's expression was priceless. Maybe he never knew all these things were done by his grandfather. Who cunningly used everyone to his benefit.
"And there is another victim," said Alex.
"You mean Noah?"
"You knew about him?"
"Yes, and how is he?"
"He had refused a heart transplant and now he's in a coma," I said to him.
"Can you arrange for me to see him?"
"Why?" asked Alex a bit tensed.
"Don't worry I won't do anything to him I just want to talk to him,"
"I don't know but I will ask his brother and let you know," I said, as I started to understand, his position and what he must have gone through.
"Liam, before we part ways, can I know why you did plastic surgery?" I asked as it bothered me a lot.
"Well it was all arranged by grandfather, I really didn't have much choice. I really tried to hide away but he had put secret service to monitor my every move 24/7,"
After all these, we went on our own way. I had to think a lot as I realized, that Liam had gone through a lot whether he liked it or not. It seems he's been abused mentally and physically. I saw a big scar on his left wrist, must be some punishment or torture he had to go through.