Chapter 56
Bryan looked at the frail man lying on the bed connected to different machines, and a smile spread on his face as he pulled down his oxygen
mask
“Who are you?” The man croaked, his voice raspy from lack of use.
“You don’t remember me?” Bryan asked
“AHH, my manners, I heard it is dementia, right? I mean, how could you forget me after you ruined my family? I couldn’t forget you. I really feel insulted that you’ve forgotten me.” Bryan said, a smirk playing at the corner of his lips
“Now, maybe I should prod your brain a little, help you remember who I am, the little details that you have forgotten, I could help you remember them.”
“You sound like you are on something. I’m calling security.” He said, reaching for the call button by the side of the bed
In a swoop, Bryan disconnected the call button from the wall “Not so fast. I mean, I cannot have you calling the nurses and alerting them of my presence when we are yet to even start a deep conversation”
“What do you want? The man asked
Bryan scoffed instead, “Despite you being on your deathbed, that pride and arrogance are still there, that condescending tone and look are still there, looking down on me like I am nothing, like I don’t hold your life in my hands.” Bryan growled angrily, his temper getting the better
of him.
“Who are you?”
“Now, you are asking the right question,” Bryan said with a sneer as he sat down on a chair just beside the bed with his legs crossed.
“I suppose you would not remember ruining the life of a man and his family, locking him away, and leaving his family to unimaginable terrors. But how would you, I reckon, that you have betrayed all who were your so–called allies? You have always been selfish; you only thought about yourself. Other people were disposable to you, they were just always there to take the fall for you, weren’t they?”
At this point, the feral look on Bryan’s face was so fierce, the vein on his forehead was visible at the same time,
“I…I don’t know what…”
“Shut it!”
Bryan interjected angrily with a growl, slapping him across his face.
“I am the one speaking, not you. You are going to listen, you are not going to say anything, you do not deserve the chance to say anything.
You deserve to die!!!!”
Tears dropped from the corner of the man’s eyes, his frail frame shaking on the bed
“Are those tears?” Bryan asked and burst into laughter, a maniacal laughter that resounded around the room
“I never believed monsters had what it takes to cry. I’m yet to begin. Now this is what is going to happen once I’m done, talking. You’re going to die.” He said plainly.
The man’s eyes widened in fear as he tried to shout, but his voice could barely come out louder than whispers as he struggled for air.
“Try to scream as loud as you want, you won’t even be able to, and nobody, absolutely nobody, will hear you.”
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“Why are you doing this?” His faint voice asked,
“Because you killed my father, you deserve to die too, you deserve to suffer like I and my mother suffered, I won’t give you an easy death, will make sure that you suffer, that you feel the pain we felt, you don’t deserve anything less.” Pain etched on Bryan’s face as he recUNUA
events from his childhood.
“You ruined my life, you killed my mother, you destroyed everything I ever had. You destroyed my family, and you drained all the happiness from my family. We were once happy, very happy, but you took that from me without a second thought.
The man’s wheezy breaths could be heard loudly now as he struggled to breathe properly
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“Do you remember when you betrayed your partner? You set him up for failure, you made him lose all his properties because of one single misunderstanding. Do you know what that did to him and his family? You sent a child’s hero to prison, you let a young boy watch his father get harassed, you left a boy and his mother to fend for themselves.”
Bryan ran his hand through his hair in anger and frustration,
“The boy was mocked and scorned, he was bullied by his friends, all his friends abandoned him, and named him ‘Son of a thief. That boy didn’t deserve it, he didn’t deserve the beatings that came with his father’s drinking.”
“When his father was released from prison, his whole life had already been ruined; nobody wanted anything from him, all his friends cut contact with him, and his business partners refused to do business with him. Hell! No one agreed to hire him because of your stupid pride.
Tears rolled down Bryan’s face, which he wiped away furiously in anger, tightening his fists.
“You sent the man to the pit of hell, to his worst fears. You sent him to drink, it was all your fault that my father spent every waking moment of his day and every sleeping moment drinking. But you didn’t stop there, did you? You just had to mock him by telling him to come work for you as your slave. Why?! Why?! Why?!”
Ethan kicked the chair, making it stumble into the rug, the rug muting the clattering sound it made.
“You could not just leave him alone, could you? You just had to land the finishing hit. And you succeeded, you always did, didn’t you? That man transferred all his aggression onto his wife and his son, whom he loved so dearly. He hit them every damn day, every fucking day. Every day, the son showed up to school with a new bruise, trying everything to cover for his father, to protect his family that you had ruined without any care. The boy watched you as you bought everything your son requested for, he watched as you missed your son into the leeching blood sucking version only yourself, but he was too late”
Bryan’s eyes tightened shut as he tried to fight the images that popped into his head, pictures that imprinted themselves on his brain forever, pictures that he carried till that point in time.
“That day was the happiest the boy had ever been; he had scored the top scores in his class, he had passed your son, Ethan, oh, how he hated that bastard. He literally skipped home to show his parents. He knew his dad would be happy that he had not lost to Ethan, and that was all that mattered to him, but when he got there…”
Bryan’s voice cracked as he fought the tears that threatened to well up in his eyes.
“He walked in on his father about to kill himself, the loud shot of the gun had him frozen, he peed his pants in fright as he watched his father die, and all he could remember was his father saying ‘it was all your fault‘.
You took his father from him, but you didn’t even stop there; you also took his mother a few days later. She could not live with the grief of losing her husband, so she followed him and left the little boy all alone.”
Bryan rushed to the bed and wrapped his hand around the man’s neck, the man’s face turning a pink shade of red
“The boy tried to kill himself, but he failed continuously; he was hauled to foster homes, one after the other. But do you know what kept him? Getting revenge for his family. He worked so hard to get to the position that he could not be looked down on, to a position that he wielded all
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the power, and he swore to take everything from Ethan.”
Bryan tightened his grip around the man’s neck as the man struggled for air
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“The boy realised that nothing his father did was his father’s fault, he realised that it was all your fault, you pushed him into everything, you took all he had, imprisoned him, made him and his family and outcast, you sent him into drinking, you abused his child and his wife and then you killed him. You fucking murderer! I am going to fucking kill you like you killed my father, like you killed Paul Brooke and his wife Audrey Brooke as you left their son, Hayden, an orphan, I will leave your son an orphan too”
The man’s eyes widened even more at the mention of the name ‘Paul Brooke‘, he struggled and kicked his legs, his hand scratching Bryan’s glove fingers
“Die! Die! You murderous motherfucker! I am going to ruin your son. This is just the beginning. I am going to own everything. I will take every fucking thing. I am fucking Hayden Brooke and my word is the fucking law!”
The man’s hands slid down from Bryan’s around his neck and fell to the bed, his breath ceasing.
