“Did you come back for your Mom?”
Patrick got straight to the point and took a seat on the couch next to him.
Seth‘s relationship with Elissa was not as close as that of Ritchie‘s.
However, no matter what, Elissa was still his mother and he couldn‘t sit back and do nothing about her imprisonment.
However, he knew that Patrick was a cold and ruthless man.
Under such circumstances, he knew there was nothing he could say to change Patrick‘s mind.
He and Ritchie had to help their mother out of jail by themselves.
“No, Dad.I always respect your decisions.I came back mainly to see you.I haven‘t seen you for a long time.I thought we should have a small get together.”
Seth remained calm.He didn‘t make any mention about Elissa.
“I‘m busy these days.I‘m divorcing your mother, and I need to go to the lawyer‘s office later,”
Patrick unbuttoned his suit buttons and looked exhausted.
“I have a meeting scheduled to start quite soon.You two catch up.”
After saying that, Patrick left.Seeing that Patrick had left, Ritchie became anxious.
“Seth, why didn‘t you say anything about Mom? If you don‘t care about her at all, why did you even bother coming back here?”
Seth signaled his brother to calm down and said, “Don‘t worry.Dad doesn‘t intend to do anything, but it seems he won‘t stop us from trying to get Mom out of jail.”
As he played with the ring on his ring finger, Seth‘s eyes turned cold.He frowned and said, “Before I came back, I investigated the matter in great detail.Sebastian has collected all the evidence he needs to convict Mom.The Larson Group is equally as powerful as the Klein Group.He has all the evidence and we don‘t even have Dad‘s support.The odds are against us so this might be tricky.”
In the courthouse of Seacisco.It didn‘t take long before the jury came to a conclusion.The evidence given by Sebastian was clear, concise, and in a word, damning.
Because the two families involved were equally powerful, the case could only be presented with evidence.
In the end, the judge confirmed the authenticity of the evidence Sebastian had put out.
Sebastian won the trial.
Elissa was rendered guilty of the two charges, the intentional homicide twenty years ago and the recent attempted murder.
When the verdict was announced, Seth raised his eyebrows and looked at Sebastian.They hadn‘t seen each other in years, and in Seth‘s eyes, Sebastian had changed a lot.
Sebastian noticed the man‘s gaze and turned to look straight at him.The two locked eyes.
Seth smiled politely at him, but the smile was somewhat unfathomable.He nodded at Sebastian, turned around, and then left.
The second he walked out of the courthouse, Ritchie couldn‘t hold it in any longer and exploded.
“Fuck!”
His nostrils flared as he roared, “Dad really didn‘t help! Mom stayed loyal to him for years and she only tried to get rid of Sebastian for our family‘s sake.If Dad did something, things might‘ve turned out differently!”
“Calm down.Someone could hear you.”
Seth put his hand on Ritchie‘s shoulder and warned him in a low voice.
Ritchie had always had a bad temper, ever since he was a child.
Ritchie had no choice but to clamp his mouth shut.
Seth talked to the lawyer in a hushed voice for a while.He was still calm.He had never seen Sebastian as a threat and never understood why Elissa was so wary of him.
Even if he did view Sebastian as a threat, he never would‘ve resorted to murder.
Killing someone was such a despicable way to deal with them.
As a businessman, he always defeated his enemies by means of business.
Now that Elissa‘s crimes had been exposed, she had to face the consequences.
But now, Seth finally saw Sebastian in a different light.
Over the years, while living in Sugden, he had heard stories of the legendary Brandon Larson, but he had never met him in person.
So it came as a complete shock when he found out that Brandon Larson was actually Sebastian.
Seth was older than Ritchie and Sebastian, so he went to a different school.He had only remembered seeing Sebastian twice when he was still a young schoolboy.
At the time, he had thought Sebastian was just a shy introvert.
It seemed that he had severely underestimated his youngest brother.
This was the first time that Seth really saw what Sebastian was capable of.
******
On the day the verdict came out, Sebastian took the verdict to Sylvia’s grave.
The cemetery was overgrown with thick grass, and it was quiet.
The air was thick with the scent of flowers and pine trees.
Sebastian stood in front of his mother‘s grave solemnly.
All of a sudden, he pulled out his lighter, lit the document in his hand, and burned it to dust.He didn‘t say a word until the paper was nothing but ashes, floating with the wind.
Standing next to him, Natalie didn‘t know what to say to comfort him.She put her hand on his back and said gently, “You‘ve finally avenged your mother.”
Sebastian ran his fingers over the words engraved on the tombstone, and his eyes landed on the black and white photo on the tombstone.He withdrew his gaze from the gentle woman in the photo and looked into the distance silently.
After a long time, he said, “I‘m not done yet.”
On the way back home from the cemetery, Natalie could tell that Sebastian‘s mind was elsewhere.He seemed to be planning something elaborate.He leaned quietly against the car window, absentmindedly looking at the passing scenery.
As soon as they entered the house, they heard the phone in the living room ringing nonstop.Sebastian shrugged off his coat and trotted over to the telephone to answer it.He still didn‘t say anything, as if he was expecting the call.
After a while, it seemed that the person on the other end of the phone had finished speaking, and Sebastian hung up, still without saying a word.
“Who was that? Why didn‘t you say anything?” Natalie asked in confusion.
“Wrong number?”
“Patrick‘s asking us to meet him in the Hancock Club in Barnes,” Sebastian said in a low voice, his expression darkening.
Natalie approached him and held his arm comfortingly.
“Do you want to see him?” she asked gently Sebastian smiled coldly.
“He came just in time.Of course I want to see him.”
“Okay, we‘ll go see him then.”
With closed eyes, Natalie reached for his hand and rubbed her cheek against it.
At the Hancock Club, Barnes.
The private room was decorated simply but it looked quite quaint.
A delicate crystal chandelier hung on the ceiling, and smoke of the burning incense wafted in the air, mixed with the fragrance of tea.However, no matter how comfortable the room was, it couldn‘t ease the tension in the air.
Patrick and Seth sat on one side, while Sebastian and Natalie sat on the other.
A silence fell over the room and nobody spoke for a long time.
Finally, Patrick broke the silence.He coughed and looked around cautiously.Then he looked at Seth unhappily and asked,
“Where is Ritchie?”
“He has been quite hot–tempered lately, so I asked him to stay at home,” Seth answered calmly.
Patrick didn‘t mind.
After all, Ritchie would‘ve ruined everything if he came.He adjusted his mood and turned to look at Sebastian sincerely.
“I wanted to see you so that we could clear our past misunderstandings.I know that you‘ve suffered at the hands of the Klein family ever since you were a child.But from now on, I promise you, nothing like that will ever happen again.I had no idea that Elissa killed your mother, but now that you‘ve put her behind bars and I‘m going to divorce her, everything should be cleared up.Are you going to reunite with the Klein family?”
Upon hearing this, Seth‘s eyes turned cold for a moment, but he soon regained his composure.
