"Now do you understand that your uncle was a dangerous man that do anything for him to get what he wants"
Ronald spoke with hatred in his eye as he looked at Philip who was standing before him.
"He thought that I will mindlessly kill you in that day itself so that I can keep my family safe but he miscalculate because I know what it means to kill a person for a Noble family. Death sentence to all the members of my family including my new born grandchild"
Ronald said as he moved away from Philip who was having a hard time processing everything.
But Ronald did not care if Philip understood or not so he continued.
"I calculated every possible way to kill you without causing my family any harm.
At the end I saw the way to kill you without any one noticing that was poison, specifically a slow poison that will slowly kill you in the short period of one year.
I did my research and found one that was affordable and easy to get which will not cause suspicion to form it was Slumbervita. It was sleeping reagent that help's in one to have a calm sleep but long period of usage can cause health issues and even death because the side effects were not well know to anyone that doesn't work with medicines so I found the best poison and slowly started adding it your food.
Slow and steadily your health started to degrade but it was not enough to force you to comit suicide so I slowly changed my attitude toward you , forcing you to work late and blaming you for every matter even if it was small.
But after nine months in only then did I found out that there was a slight miscalculation on my side that was i mistook you for normal person that was born in a normal family forget the background you had.
The great Larkin family, the family made of warrior's and knights why would have i forget that you will stuffed with natural herbs and magical herbs that will affect you body from a young age but there was no way of going back now.
only way forward was to increase the amount of Slumbervita Herb that you intake and pressure you more but out of nowhere you brought a brat that was only five year old to work here that convincingly had best possible ability to work in a library.
That spilled water on my plans but i had another idea.
What Lucas wanted was you to be out of the picture that either dead or crippled.
So I thought why not use that child because it was easier to force someone to kill then commit suicide "
Ronald said with a straight face.
Word were slowly sipping into Philip mind but it was always hard to believe that your own family wanted you dead even if it was the same family that said it to your face.
Ronald was not finished as he sat down on to his chair as if whatever he was going say next will result in him falling down.
"But I was not strong willed enough to force you to kill a five year old child that was same age as my granddaughter but Lucas was not merciful like me.
On the day the agreement of 1 year was finished Lucas kidnapped my granddaughter at the same day I to was taken away by the guards."
********FLASHBACK*********
"what are you doing? Unhand me now"Ronald yelled at the guards took him away from the library.
As they walked away from the crowd Ronald felt something hit behind his head as he was knocked unconscious.
After who know how many hours Ronald woke up to a strong kick to his stomach.
"Wake up old man, master is here to see you"
one of the guards said as he prepared himself for one more kick.
But seeing the Ronald wake up he was dissatisfied but did not continued to kick him.
Guard move to the door and inform the others of him waking up.
After few minutes.
Lucas walked in with the same dominant feeling he gave off.
He looked down at Ronald and said
"Ronald, the twelve months of our agreement ended on his day, but you did not deliver your end of the deal, but I can't be like that so I brought you here for finishing my end of the deal"
Lucas said he opened a door to down stairs
As he walked down he pointed at the guards and indicated to take him with them down stairs.
Even though Ronald struggled against them.
What can a 50-year old scholar do to young well trained guards as he was push down the stairs.
Where the other end of the stairs was a door that was opened by Lucas .
Entering the room Ronald saw something that turn his face pale and losing all this strength in his legs as he fell down on the floor but his eye never moved away.
Before him there hung a child by his hand that was bathed in blood.
Bleeding from all over his body with cuts and and beating mark all over him.
If one looked closely they could see that child was a girl child and that she was barely breathing.
Ronald seeing his 5 year old granddaughter in a state that even himself can never image to be in.
He felt anger,fear,sorrow winding inside him but at the end felt helpless of injustice that happening to him,helpless at his weak will, helpless at his weak background, helpless at his strength to protect his family.
Lucas did not care if the Ronald was stable or not as he spoke.
"Ronald, I gave you one years time but you didn't deliver your end of the deal I want compensation for wasting my time so I kidnapped you first-born granddaughter so that she could compensate for you.
Now that I am happy with compensation that she gave me I will give you another chance to redeem yourself "
At the end of the sentence Lucas had a lustful face on him which send a shiver down Ronald spine.
"YOU BASTARD" Ronald yelled as he lashed out at Lucas.
Lucas caught Ronald by his neck and smashed him into the wall.
The force behind the hit was so strong that Ronald started coughing out blood and was slowly losing his consciousness.
But Lucas did not want it as he slapped on his face waking him up.
"Ronald, i will give you one more chance,
I want Philip out of the picture in 3 months no more nor less"
After saying it Lucas dropped Ronald who lost consciousness to the floor and walked away as he used his handkerchief to clean his hands of Ronald's blood.
As he walked up the stairs said to the guards.
"Drop them both somewhere near the city walls,until I came back from the visit for 3 months keep an eye on his family "