Pained

“I’m serious, I don’t know. We’ve been so busy, trying to find who this charlatan that stole my father’s face is that we do not have time for anything else. I said it before and I’ll say it again, help us to help you. We are just as affected by him, if not more.” Gabriel said.

“Okay, I’ll tell you.” Simon said and sat down.

“I have lost everything… I have a lawsuit against me, the people think I slept with the senator’s wife so that I’d pass the judgment in her favor. It looks like an affair. I didn’t do that, he did. I’m on the verge of losing my career and my marriage because of that sick bastard.” Simon said as he sobbed.

“What does he want from you?” West said.

“He just wants to destroy me. He said I destroyed him but I don’t even know him, I had never met him until three months ago when he became a rising star out of the blue.

“He knows a lot of people and has a lot of friends in high places and so, I agreed to be friends with him when he asked. That was it until he started acti