ZADE“When will you stop acting like a petulant child?”“I don’t know, father, when I feel like you have had enough torture and guilt over what you did.”I don’t see the punch coming, feeling it rattling my entire brain. He has never hit me before. We fight and break things, but he has never hit me before.“You can do all that you want to me,” he grabs me by the collar, pulling me up, “but hurt Mary, an innocent woman, and lashing out at her? That’s where you cross the line, son.”I push myself away from him, readjusting my blazer. “You can drop the act, no one is in here to judge you. I know the real you.”“And what is that?”“That you are a cold, heartless man who will never love anyone or put anyone above yourself, always for the seat and power you hold. Always for the seat and power you have.”He shakes his head, walking by the window, looking calm, but I would be a fool to let my guard down. There is a reason he is the most feared man.“Is that what you think?”“Think?” I adjust
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