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.“Happens more than you think, son.Charles wasn’t proud of his needs but he had them.”“Ah, so Simon’s mother was simply another conquest?”“She was…she was special to Charles.I know that sounds crazy given what I’ve just told you, but in some ways I think she was the love of his life,” Daniel breathed.“So that’s what you do with the women you love dearly, you beat the shit out of them on a regular basis.Un-fucking believable the arrogance.”“Don’t you dare go judging us!” Daniel exclaimed as he pointed a shaking finger at Michael but yanked it back, his face filling with horror.“Us.Of course.You were smack in the middle of this.”“I told you I thought the inheritance was a bad idea.”“But you could understand that he might be feeling guilty about beating up a woman and having a gay son with another?”“But Simon’s gay,” Daniel said as he narrowed his eyes.“The truth is that Charles never knew for sure.See in Georgia it’s not a good thing to be a gay boy.Simon hid his sexual preference from his stepfather.” Michael could see real surprise cross the man’s face.“Hmmm.Interesting.So if Chad or little Charlie found out about his mother’s affair then he probably would have figured out who Simon was even though Simon ran away from the abusive life after his mother committed suicide.Unless you told Charlie.After all four million dollars is a lot of money.Tell me, is there a trust fund set up for Charles junior or did the asshole take away the rest from his son?”“Shit.You just don’t understand.” Daniel opened and closed his mouth.“Charles junior did receive an inheritance but it wasn’t nearly the amount Simon received.You see by that point Charlie had all but cut the ties with his wife and with Charles junior.There is a frozen account but Charlie junior can’t and won’t have rights to the funds.The account is set up for Charlie’s mother for her care.”“Oh really? The least he could do for running off with another women.” Michael walked closer.Why did he feel there was a but in the middle of this? There was something the man was hiding.“Now how could a father do that do his flesh and blood son? I mean I understand the boy was and is gay, but for that to happen after all he and Chad’s mother put him through is just simply cruel.Don’t you agree with me?”“Charlie had his good sides but he was tortured inside.”Michael snorted.“And you think there’s a single person that doesn’t hide behind something?”“You mean like the fact you ran over a boy after you’d been drinking on the job and set up a scholarship for the kid’s twin brother? You mean like that?”Snapping his head around, Michael resisted the urge to break the man’s neck.He swallowed hard as he clenched his fists.“I do check up on the people investigating my clients.I knew of your reputation as a cop.You were out of control.”His heart beating rapidly Michael nodded.“I’ll pay my dues and live in my private horror for the rest of my life as will you.What we’re talking about is a man who is probably going to either kill himself or someone else and I can guess who that someone else is.So if you don’t want to have additional shit on your hands I need to know every bit of what we’re dealing with.Do you hear me?”Daniel tilted his head and glared at Michael.“I don’t know anything.”Taking a stab in the dark Michael grinned.“I’m taking another guess Chad hid his identity from you for awhile as well but you were the one who leaked information about the account, where it was and all the details you knew to Chad.Weren’t you? That was his blackmail effort to you? I’m also going to venture a guess that you did know all about the adoption and helped in a sense with some legal matters around the details.Whether or not you know the name of the woman or her involvement and ultimate position you helped.See, Chad played this very well.He got lucky in that Tina Young is a nurse and right now the police are checking on her place of employment but my guess is that they’re going to find out that she was able to substitute all kinds of records.I have to wonder about the surrogacy and whether that’s also a lie
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