Chapter 141: The Confession
“My mother risked her life to get me out. I was in the hospital for half a month before I woke up. When I opened my eyes and saw her, I could not recognize her. She was a bag of bones. We returned to our hometown, and my mother married an old German.”
That man was an asshole. He drank and beat Tristan and his mother and Tristan. Soon he also lost all of his money. And he got himself seriously injured in a DUI.
When Tristan was in the last grade of senior high school, the last year of high school, he got the phone call and went to the hospital. He unplugged the oxygen pipe tube himself.
His mother didn’t have to be tortured by this asshole anymore. However, her life had done too much damage to her physically and mentally. She had Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 50.
“This is what happened to your brothers. Some of them are known, and some of them are unknown to you.”
Donald’s face was as gray as ashes. He moved mechanically to the couch and sank onto it. He seemed to be taking a long time to digest the facts.
He raised his head and asked in a husky voice, “So you came back to take revenge?”
“Right.”
“The money was split by David Wagner and Harry Jackson. One used it as startup capital for his business and rose again; the other used it for bribing his way through political circles. They lived a good life. I was full of hatred when I thought of it.”
“David Wagner, I killed him personally.”
Tristan looked at his hands and said to himself, “That villain’s blood was red too. He was a coward. He begged for his life.”
“Harry Foster was cunning and suspicious, but he had his weakness: his daughter. Besides, everyone has greediness. All I can do is feed it. After David Wagner, I thought it was too easy for them to just end their life with a bullet.”
When Tristan said this, his face was calm, but underneath lurked instability.
Donald was shocked and also sympathetic, “You are ruining yourself.”
Tristan laughed, “I will be ruined with them.”
“I took revenge and also achieved something that takes other people decades or a lifetime to achieve. Of course, everything has its cost. For this, I am prepared.”
After his father died, Tristan had lost confidence in this world. And his wife’s death took away the last shred of warmth from his life. He was desperate, and he initiated his revenge.
Tristan didn’t expect Kate’s entrance to bring back his desire for life again.
When he thought of her, he felt warm, as if there was a gentle hand stroking his hard and cold chest.
Donald asked with hesitation, “You reached out to Jessie because you wanted to hold something against me?”
Tristan’s eyes looked depressed. “I did have that idea.”
“But she is a nice girl, I cannot do that to her. Besides, I cannot allow myself to use my emotions as tools for revenge.”
This was the only innocent part of Tristan’s heart. Perhaps subconsciously, he still had some inhibitions. The emptiness meant hope. And he wore the ring for eight years to remind him to protect the last piece of unsullied heart.
Donald was full of guilt inside. His daughter being in this mire was entirely his fault.
It was good then. He must pay for what he did.
He gave it some thought. It seemed difficult for him, but he strangely made the decision, “Let me think about it. I will help you to get off.”
Tristan said with indifference, “I am not coming to ask for your help today. I just wanted to catch up with you.”
He lifted the photo again, “I am curious. Why is this photo in your office drawer?”
Donald’s face turned gloomy, and he said with sorrow, “I wanted to remind myself not to do anything I would regret. I want to stick to justice and never indulge any evil desire or sin.”
Tristan laughed lightly, and his tone was sarcastic, “You have become a good civil servant at this cost.”
The cost was his father’s life and the happiness of his entire family.