"Me and my granddaughter was then found by civilians near the wall after we were dropped off by the guards, we were admitted in a hospital and was in coma for few days.
I thought that the day ended but it was just start of my families misfortune.
Only after three day did I woke up for the coma, only to hear a devastating truth.
My five year old child was r*ped by four men over and over throughout the night
DO YOU KNOW THE PAIN I FELT?"
Ronald yelled at Philip who was stand against him, shocked by everything.
"I was filled with rage I wanted to rip you apart but I could not do it, If I did anything, everything I work so hard to protect will be destroyed
I wanted something to divert my mind so I started to drinking alcohol"
Ronald said as he slowly pulled out a bottle of alcohol with a name on it "Black Queen"
Then he pulled out two glasses and poured himself a cup.
Gulping....
After drinking which calm down Ronald.
He took few minutes as he poured himself a cup again as he waited for Philip to process everything or a portion of what he had said.
After a few minutes seeing Philip was regaining light in his eyes, Ronald continued.
"They say that alcohol brings disaster to a broken man and breaks him by giving false hope , pleasure and peace until it starts to affect his family and slowly eats him away"
Ronald said as he drank another cup.
"But for me and my family, alcohol brought fortune and hope of revenge and peace.
After the day I got the news of the misfortune my granddaughter got.
I drown myself in alcohol, day in and day out. the helplessness I felt did not let me be sober
As the days went on I found my self in front of many bars as i was kicked out of many because of my self killing drinking.
Until the day of fortune the day I enter a new bar that not everyone knows at the outskirts of walls.
Where I heard a rumor how perverted young master of the noble families have changed to into kind hearted now saving young children who were captured and tortured for weeks if not months."
Ronald said with his eye locked onto Philip's eyes which showed waves of emotions from shock to fear them guilt to determination them resolution.
"And this childrens to repay their so called saviour they started to work for them with the help of Alex the priest of the our city's church the children helped there saviour's.
When i heard this I pulled some of my favour's to enquire about this new change of young masters of the noble family.
The truth i found about was more wicked than i thought, kidnapping children from the villages then they are tortured until they submit, then the saviour come to save them and in return for saving them, they work for them until they repay them and the ones that couldn't help their saviour they end up dead.
With everything I connected all the dot that you,Alex and jishnu had, where this kid popped out of nowhere with best possible ability to work for you or what you wanted to replace yourself so that you could work on your research.
I got the hope of killing him and his family.
By reporting this to the city lord but i was too late when i reached the doorstep of the city lord, a regrettable news came that Lucas of the Larkin family and his family with his two nephew's died in there visits Dreadvale.
When I heard it, I felt two emotions one was regret and the other helplessness.
Regret that I was not the one that killed him but that regret washed away when I found about his body missing that he can't even get a proper burial."
Ronald said with a voice filled with regret as he looked down at glass filled with alcohol.
"But the helplessness I felt which started the day your uncle visited me for the first time, that never washed away as it still haunts me till this day,
I did everything to erase this feeling until it dawned on to me that I can't put away this feeling because it was a natural feeling which every human felt so searched for power,not the false sense that money brings to one but that real power that can bind the wealthy and kill anyone that stand against me and my family.
But I am way past the prime age where I can become a warrior and even if I become one I will be dead before I can even rank up.
So the only option was to become a mage and extend my life for 100 more years in the process so that I will never feel this helplessness I felt ever again.
I will never become a mage even if I pull all my favour I had it was not possible.
and my research was far from finished, the only way to fast forward my research is money.
So, I promised myself that I will do everything to make money even if it meant that I need to force a child do my betting"
Ronald said with fire in his eye as he looked at Philip.
"So Philip, I will ask you one more time will you stand with me and get a share of the profits or stand against me and see you family go in flames"
Ronald finished as he waited for Philip to reply.
In the opposite side Philip was in dilemma
But in the end it was choosing between a complete stranger and his family who was his own blood.
Even though he felt guilty for what he did to jishnu but it never will take over his care for his family.
So Philip noded without ounce of hesitation.
Seeing which a smile bloomed on Ronald's face.