Chapter 559 – Beginning with a Daring Encounter

“You see what I mean? Tell me where you want me to drive you to, and I will tell you everything you need to know on our way,” Benne offered.

“For someone who was so tight-lipped yesterday and refusing to say a word, you suddenly seem eager to say a lot to me,” Harry said dryly, and Benne sighed.

“You don’t possibly blame me for that, do you? Tell me honestly, would you have preferred to hear all of that from me?” Benne asked, and Harry’s brows pulled together as he considered it.

If he had heard it from Benne and not from his dad, his dad probably wouldn’t be lying on that hospital bed right now since he would have taken every necessary action to deal with Sara, and find a way to reunite Candace with his father.

But then again, it probably wouldn’t have happened that way, since he would have probably been even angrier at his father, had he heard it from someone else and he wasn’t sure he would have given his father the chance to explain things to him the way he had done.

“No,” Harry admitted honestly with a sigh, and Benne gave him a nod. Thankful that Harry was honest with them both.

“Good. So tell me how you feel and what you want. Do you want us to go to a shooting range so you can let off some steam? Or would you rather play call of duty?” Benne asked, and Harry shook his head as he buckled his seatbelt.

“Nah! Just take me home. I want to be alone for some time,” Harry said, and Benne started the car and drove out of the parking lot.

“Home it is then.”

“Tell me all you know,” Harry urged him, and Benne told him every single detail he had gathered from both Celsie and Jade concerning Sara.

The more Harry listened to Benne and processed everything, the angrier he became. He gritted his teeth until he was sure that his teeth were going to crack soon if he didn’t stop.

Most of Harry’s anger stemmed from the fact that Sara had the guts to show up, expecting a smooth family reunion despite the fact she sold off Candace and lied to Aaron that the child was dead.

How could a person be that callous? How could she sell a baby she had with her husband and lie to him in that manner and still go ahead to steal some more money from him?

He knew little enough about Candace from the time he had spent with Jade, to know that life hadn’t been easy on her, but hearing now from Benne how her adoptive parents had died and how she had been abandoned once again at an orphanage by her uncle who stole everything from her, his blood boiled.

He knew just what kind of life she had led, and the kind of man she had been with, and that was all because a devil like Sara had given birth to them!

Stealing from Aaron and abandoning them wasn’t much of a big deal to Harry since she wouldn’t be the first woman to choose her career over family, and as much as that was supposed to hurt him, he didn’t feel so hurt by that.

No, not in a long shot. His father’s love had been more than enough for him. Still was. He had been loved too much by Aaron and was also too old now to begin feeling unloved, unwanted, or inferior. Nah, he was beyond that now, and it was all thanks to having a selfless father like Aaron.

Although, he was mad that Aaron had lied to him, and he hated that he had thought he had an amazing mother this whole time, but he wouldn’t think about that right now. No, he wouldn’t even think about it as a lie at all.

As far as he was concerned, he had an amazing mother, and that mother was Aaron. Sara might have donated half his genes, and carried him in her womb, but that woman was not his mother. She was only a surrogate who had been paid to do the job as she well stated in her letter.

He was NEVER going to acknowledge her as his mother. That was the only way he could deal with her ruthlessly for hurting his father the way she had done, and for hurting Candace because he wasn’t all that hurt himself. His major hurt at the moment came from Aaron’s hurt and Candace’s hurt.

He knew without a doubt that Candace would most likely be more hurt than he was from everything. He had lived a sheltered life with their father, while she had moved from hand to hand until she even became a stripper. Harry shut his eyes at the thought.

He couldn’t face the fact that despite all the money he had, his twin sister had suffered that way. Life had been hard enough for her to have made her resort to such a degrading job.

Wouldn’t it have been better for her if she had been the one Sara had given to Aaron and he had been sold? His life would probably have turned out differently from it was now, but he knew it wouldn’t have been as bad as Candace’s was.

How was his father going to live with the knowledge that he had a daughter who had lived such a difficult life?

What punishment would be enough for a person like Sara? What could he do to destroy her for doing that to them and depriving them both of all these years with Candace because of her greed?

Benne turned to spare Harry a glance when he didn’t say a word after a long time. Benne said nothing when he noticed how hard Harry’s face was, and how his jaw was firmly set, with a thoughtful look in his eyes.

Benne was quiet until he heard Harry’s chuckle and turned to him curiously, wondering what he was finding funny.

“It’s funny how I saw through her the first time we met without even realizing who she was,” Harry said, and Benne sighed.

“What do you want us to do to her? Tell me anything, and I’m down for it,” Benne said, and Harry smiled.

“You sound like you’d kill her without questions if I asked you to,” Harry said in amusement.

“I won’t kill her without questions. I will have to ask how you want me to kill her. Poison? Run her over? Chop her up? Or a single gunshot to the head?” Benne asked, and Harry shuddered dramatically as he tried not to laugh.

“Geez, Benne! You sound so scary,” Harry said, and Benne shrugged.

“But I’d rather we don’t kill her. Even death is too merciful for a person like that,” Benne said, and Harry nodded in agreement.

“Let’s start by finding the hospital where I was born,” Harry suggested.

“What for? You already know what she did,” Benne pointed out.

“If truly she is the kind of person we know she is, she is going to be committing more crimes to cover up her previous crimes so we can’t expose her. I’d like to see her give us something to use against her. Where best to start from if not the place she committed the first crime?” Harry asked, and Benne’s gaze narrowed as he considered it.

“You are right. Let’s look into it,” Benne said as he parked the car in front of Harry’s apartment building.

“I will let you know what I find. You handle the company, while I take care of this,” Harry said as he unbuckled his seatbelt and got out of the car.

“There is nothing stopping me from doing both. I will talk to Barry to add one more person to his list,” Benne called out as he watched Harry get into the building.

Once Harry disappeared from view, the smile disappeared from his face and he picked up his phone and dialed Barry’s line.

“Sup, bro?” Barry asked immediately after he received the call.

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