Beyond the Palms by Amanda Aggie

Author:Amanda Aggie [Aggie, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Direct Publishing
Published: 2020-04-10T22:00:00+00:00

III

The Risks Have Stakes

“When we checked in, we signed our name on the dotted line of a death sentence. He would have never let us go, the longer we stayed, the more he planned and plotted our abduction.”

-Thea Dawson

Therapy Session 3

13

Conspiracy

Eric looked out the window. Even on the 9th floor, he recognized the two people that walked up the trail from the beach. He shook his head and pulled the thick curtain closed and walked away. He couldn’t understand how his nephew just continually pushed the limit. He didn’t know how to get through to him, he has given him so many chances to make the right decision, but each time, he chooses to do whatever he wants anyway. How could he not understand after seeing Elizabeth? He knew his nephew in his current state of mind did not have what it takes to hurt others; he always looked the other way growing up despite his father pushing him into this way of life. Alex simply cared too much for people he didn’t even know. His father hated it, he wanted to turn him into a killer, and the most ruthless successor he could. However, he repeatedly failed and continually pulled away from this way of life. Eric had hoped showing him what his father had done would scare him into leaving the poor Dawson girl alone, he was wrong.

Eric thought back to when his brother had told him that he had put Elizabeth in the cage. His brother ranted about how soft his son was.

“He couldn’t even look at them, Eric; he just looked down at the floor. He didn’t even make it through the bidding.”

“How the hell is he supposed to be my successor, the man walked out before the convention started. I walked outside the convention room to make sure he was OK, and the pathetic excuse for a man threw up in the corridor trash can. At least he had the audacity to leave the room; if he had done that in front of the members, lord help me, I would have shoved him into one of those cages myself. He is an embarrassment to me, and a disgrace to the grounds to which the convention was created,” his brother boasted.

“Give him a break; he’s not made to be in this, the boy has too much compassion for life. He is like his mother, and you know that. Our father thought the same about you once upon a time. It wasn’t until—” Eric broke off.

“No, don’t make him do this.”

Eric looked at the unconscious woman on the floor of the cage.

“Killing his mother made me the man I am, he will do the same,” his brother had already made up his mind and Eric knew it. There would be no getting him to waiver on a decision. Once he had made one, it was final.

“Our father wanted you to prove your worth. When he made the convention, you clung to his ways like they were of your own making.

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