Chapter 73
At the Wallace enterprise, Xavier was in his office, working on some paperwork when he heard a knock on the door to his office, Xavier looked at the screen beside the door.
His gaze sharpened when he saw the person at the other side of the door. He pressed a remote.
The secretary spread the wide open for Mr Wallace to go inside.
“Xavier, I have been trying to contact Richard for the past few days and he’s not picking. Do you perhaps know where your brother went to?” Mr Wallace questioned Xavier as soon as the secretary shut the door.
He took a seat without waiting for Xavier to offer him now and stared at his son.
Xavier’s grip tightened on the file he was holding.
He stared at his father. “That bastard is not my brother,” he said, deadpan.
Since Xavier had kept Richard at his hideout, torturing him however he pleased, he hadn’t told his father anything about it. Although he hadn’t planned to disclose the situation, he knew he would eventually have to, as Mr. Wallace would soon start looking for Richard.
Mr Wallace sighed heavily as he shook his head slightly. “I know that Richard is not the best brother, but you still have to search to him. He’s still your brother after all. What if our enemies got to him?” He asked.
Mr Wallace didn’t favor Richard at all. The latter had always tried to disgrace his family name in the eyes of the other influential families, but those families dared not to say anything out in the open. At the end of the day, he couldn’t reject his son and he was worried after not seeing him at the mansion for almost a week.
“They didn’t,” Xavier replied. Mr Wallace gave him a confused expression. “I was the one who held Richard hostage for something he did,” he added, shocking his father.
“What do you mean?” He questioned.
Xavier explained everything to his father, starting from where he found Richard attempting to rape Selene to where he took him to the hideout and punished him severely.
Mr. Wallace kept quiet afterward. He was aware of the underground job Xavier was involved in, he was the one who trained him after all, before he retired. Mr Wallace was aware of how much of a deadbeat and useless his son was, but he couldn’t digest the fact that Richard tried to rape a woman.
He had mixed emotions, one of anger and disbelief.
“Now, do you think I will let Richard go after what he did?” Xavier questioned his father.
“I think you won’t,” Mr Wallace replied honestly. He sighed. “Are you going to kill Richard?” He asked.
He knew Xavier well and there was one thing Xavier hated the most. It was rapists and pedophiles. Since his brother fell into one of those two things he despised, he wondered how Xavier was going to handle it.
“If I wanted to, I would have killed him long ago,” Xavier replied coldly. “But his fate isn’t in my own hands,” he added, pushing a few of his completed paperwork aside and moving the uncompleted ones in front of him. “Selene will be the one to decide what she wants to do with him. And before you ask, yes, I plan to tell her about my other work. I don’t want to keep any secrets from her p>
“What kind of relationship do you have with that woman?” Mr Wallace questioned.
Xavier cared too much about a woman he had only met a few months ago; it was suspicious to him. He couldn’t understand why he felt so deeply for her in such a short amount of time.
A faint smirk pulled on Xavier’s lips. He raised his head and stared at his father.
“I love her,” he declared.
Even though he still couldn’t pinpoint whom Selene reminded him of exactly, he still found himself falling from her. From the first time he met her at the Harrison mansion till the current day. He found himself falling deeper in love with her.
Now it was Mr Wallace who smirked, not surprised. He had predicted that would be Xavier’s reply.
“What if Selene is an enemy and she tells her people about you, that you are X, and what if she decides to have Richard killed? Will you let a woman whom you just knew a few months ago decide the fate of your brother? You just met her for crying out loud, you can’t trust her,” He questioned Xavier through gritted teeth.
“I can trust Selene, father. You are the last person who should be lecturing me about trust.” Xavier dropped the paperwork out of annoyance. “And yes, she will be the one who decides Richard’s fate p>
Xavier could have told his father the real identity of Selene, but he doubted his father would keep his mouth shut. Mr Wallace still shared a sort of a good relationship with Robert Harrison. Telling him Selene’s real identity could put her in danger and he wouldn’t want to risk that.
“I can see you are thinking with your dick instead of your head, Xavier, but you’d better not do something stupid that would jeopardize our family and our business,” Mr Wallace warned, getting up from his seat. “I’m going to the hideout to see Richard,” he added and left.
Later in the evening, Xavier arrived home. He went directly to his room to take a shower.
When he was done, he went to his walk-in closet but noticed something off with the arrangement of his clothes.
The servants were allowed to clean his room but never come near his clothes, he had his reason.
Frowning, Xavier searched for what he’d kept in that corner of his closet. When he placed his hand on the fabric, he didn’t feel anything.
“Shit!” He cursed under his breath.
He turned, about to leave but halted when he saw Selene standing in front of him.
“Were you looking for this?” She asked him, showing him the gun in her hands.