Chapter 169: No Redemption

Lex's POV

I was completely lost in confusion now because what the heck was he talking about? My father changing me or changing the way I see things—what was that supposed to mean, and how did it relate to what I had just asked him about his loyalty to my father?

"What I mean is that your father is not going to take it lightly if he should hear that you have a plan of eliminating him; he never takes it lightly with anyone, not even with your mother," he said, and as if this was the hook I was waiting for, I nodded my head slowly in agreement as I leaned back and pointed to the side of the road, asking him to pull over.

"I need you to tell me everything you know about my mother, and right now I am not in the mood for any encoded response from you. I needed to be completely open to myself and tell me as much as you remember, or else I am not going to be pleased, and I'd make sure that you see that I am not. Believe me, this is not a threat; this is just my curiosity ready to do anything to satisfy itself," I said to him, and I was being completely honest at that point because it's not a threat for me; it was me showing him I was ready to do anything it takes to get the truth out, and if he wasn't going to tell me, I would find out one way or another.

"When your mother first moved in, she was vibrant and cheerful and willing to do everything to help your father succeed in his business. At first, I thought they were the perfect fated match until I heard rumors about how they were not truly fated mates and how your father had to travel far away to get her to mate because she was from a family that had a track record for helping businesses upscale, and she was very smart. Although her family was not as wealthy as your father's, she was also from a very reputable family who were doing well on their own," he said and suddenly paused, making me stare at him intensely, and just then I noticed him undoing his seat belt as he opened the car and stepped out.

Without arguing, I opened the car door and stepped out, leaning outside the car as he stood beside me.

"At first it looked like the perfect couple moment until we began to hear from the guards and maids and the other staff who work for your father that your mother was having issues with her family and that she was cutting off everyone she had known before your father until everyone was completely cut off and wanted to have nothing to do with her even when she was going through the worst phase of her life."

"It was not her; it was him. He does that to everyone, and that is the reason I don't even know my own relatives because my father thinks that people who are related to him are rivals and not family, which is why I cannot see him as family because I was trained to not see anyone as family. I am going to make him have a taste of his own medicine, and it is going to sting so much because I doubt he would be able to survive it."

"One time after you were born, a few months after, your mother tried to fight it. It was the first time she was ever fighting him back, but it backfired so much that the entire fault was laid on her, and she was labeled something that she wasn't, a whore. Your father framed her to have cheated, and even though it was not true and he was the one that was actually guilty of that in the marriage, your mother had to carry it all, and for some reason he seems to be enjoying the game, as it seems to bring a hike to his business and his stock price went very high."

"I understand that trouble, dramas, and conflict are one thing that fueled his business so much, and he seemed to be why he is very much interested in it making headlines every day; he enjoys it a lot, so you see, he doesn't care even though it's at the expense of the people he loved and called family."

"However, I need you to be careful. I have watched you grow, and even though I am under your authority as your employee, I also would be very honest with you because this path you are trying to tread is very dangerous. Your mother did not survive it, and even though I am rooting for you to succeed, I also must say that you need to be careful," he said to me, and not knowing what to say to him, I nodded my head slowly in agreement.

That's what everyone who cared about me was saying; they all needed me to be careful around my own father, who was supposed to be beside me and be me and him against the world.

"One last question before we get back on the highway: do you really think my father is still redeemable?" I asked him as I turned around this time, facing him directly with my arms folded around my chest, waiting patiently to hear what he was going to say in response, and even though I wished he was going to answer me in one word, I still did not bother when he began his usual detailed response.

"No man is born without a flaw, Lex, and your father does have his own flaws, and we owe it to ourselves to help them change, and to answer your question precisely, I do not think there's anyone who cannot be redeemed; we just need to try our best and help them as much as we can, and when we get tired of helping, we let them be and leave the judgment to the one who made them."

"What if I take judgment into my own hands and save the rest of the people who are going to be hurt in the future by the trauma of knowing who he is?" I asked plainly.