Chapter 20, Words Of The Old And Their Wise Saying.
"Let me tell you don, I have trained you all these while, you are my son but there are some thing I have held on away from you.
And I didn't do these things just because I hate you or I love James better than you" Master Baron said, looking very sober and serious like he always did.
Although this time he looked twice as serious thank normal which was why Johnathan looked at his father with keen attention as he listened to what the old man had to say to him quietly without asking the questions in his mind.
"You didn't know about James for a very long time right? It's only when he surfaced and took over the Baron enterprise that you knew about his existence.
Why do you think that's possible? Do you think he didn't know of your existence all these while?
No right? Of cause he must have known about us, about you and I, about the Baron Enterprise, maybe he even has a mole that is working for him.
Because if you seat down to think about it, his activities is really too good to be true don't you think?
James couldn't just coke up that day and have a meeting with the board of elders behind my back and make them to be able to change their minds so suddenly that they made him the president without even consulting me.
If it were in the olden days, then I would say James had used some sort of charm on everyone to be able to get favour the way he did.
But we are not in the olden days and I am too realistic to believe in all those barbaric faces that people may use on others.
I just think that James is just an absolutely rational man, he is a precocial effective and efficient person who is able to seat down and calculate all these so that his plan came out perfectly without any glitch.
And you know why he was able to do that? It's because he has patience my son, no one knows since when he had been planning for the day that he came in and strikes in front of us shocking everyone of us.
He caught us unaware, and even was able to get us to do whatever he wants like to let him marry that girl from that family.
And he did it so well that we his parents couldn't even say anything about it.
Now my son I know that you have also been patient all these while, if not, how would it have been possible for you to reach this far.
I had indeed planned to present you to the world as my only son, the young Master and Heir of the Baron family and I still have that dream to do it one day.
But you must understand som that it's also not easy for me, the whole world only knows I have just one son, and now that James had forcefully claimed that title in the public, I only have to think of another means to throw him out of it.
But we can not be impulsive and rationally just like what you did and ended up in the police office in the first place.
Be patient with me son, I still have you in mind and I am also thinking of a way out of this.
But like I said earlier, this would require you to be patient and use your brain to think about it and calculates all your moves first before making any moves.
Take this like as a chess game, one wrong move and you would be giving the opponent the change to move in to you and destroy that very thing which you treasure the most.
Because a man with desire is the one that can easily be captured by the enemy, and I don't want you to be captured and over the owned by your brother completely.
So from now on, promise me that whatever you are going to do, you will think about the consequences first before doing it.
If you are unsure, it's good to ask questions around as long as no one else knows what your plan is because as much as one person knows, you risk the possibility of letting the whole world know about it.
I know it's been a while since we sat and talked like this, but I guess what I wasn't you to know is that do not rush into doing thing okay?
It's okay to take your time, as long as you come out victorious, that is all that really matter." John finally sat back on his seat as if he had given the world to his son.
After all that's been said and done, he knew that his decision to keep quiet was probably for the good of both of them.
Sooner or later, he would find out, he'll use the same means or slightly different means than James and find out all the information he wasn't able to get.
But as of now, he would focus on making a name for himself since he could no longer rely on the family name he had grown up to know as his.
He had to learn the hard way, but he realized that the saying that blood is thicker than water is just a facade that a certain number of people, probably those benefiting from it created.
And Johnathan had every right to think that way, because in his part, his blood was actually as watery and a water and it would not continue to hold him tight in this world where he needed it the most.
"Father, I have heard you and understand" Johnathan said to his father already playing the game.
"So you will do as I say?" His father asked anxiously because he knows that Johnathan is no more a child and it would be somewhat hard to try and manipulate or control him.