Chapter 209 - Scapegoat... (2/2)

No one knew Mr. Porter Brown better than Alex because he was the one who had stayed as a prey of his father's fury, almost for his whole life. The amount of torture and beatings he had gone through, had still left a deep scar in his mind..

After getting a little bit of courage from his prayer, Alex asked, ”How will you do that? I mean.. How will you show your power to everyone, specially Alonzo?”

”I'll not do that but you will. As you are your father's son, so you have to help your father in fulfilling his wishes.. Isn't it right my dear son?” Though Mr. Brown's voice was sugarcoated, still it was not oblivious to Alex that his father meant nothing but just harm to him..

”What kind of help are you talking about?” Alex tried to be confident though he miserably failed.

”Nothing much.. I jtst heard that your brother had fallen in love with a girl whose name is Veronica Lopez who is also a friend of yours...

And I also came to know that you guys are acting to be the same person to meet that girl everytime and even I know that you're going to see her tomorrow after Alonzo leave for his trekking..” Mr. Brown said.

”So??” Alex asked nervously.

Again giving him a smirk, Alex's father Mr. Brown said, ”So.. you just have to remove her from your brother's life. I don't want any poor girl to come into our household. We don't know if she is just some gold digging bitch or not.. So I can't risk either my son's life or my huge property..”

”Dad.. you can't do that. Alonzo loves her very much and she is also a very good girl.” For the first time in his life, Alex had voiced out his opinion in front of his father to stand up for his brother and friend.

Furrowing his eyebrows at the sudden spirit of Alex, Mr. Brown said, ”I don't care about that. I just want you to follow my command otherwise..”

”Oth.. otherwise?” Alex stuttered as his hands got wet by perspiration.

Wickedly smiling at him, Mr. Brown muttered threateningly, ”Otherwise I'll kill both of you and that girl Veronica. Do you want that to happen?”

All the confidence Alex had built up from these past few months got scattered down in a minute and at this moment Alex didn't feel anything but despair..

”You.. you can't do that..” Alex mumbled with hit tear flowing from his eyes.

”Of course I can do that my dear son. And no one knows better than you about that. Or did you forget the beatings I gave you?” Porter Brown said it without any sympathy in his voice but just venom in his words.

Alex clearly remembered those days when he was detained under his father and got beaten brutally by him most of the time.

Whenever Mr. Porter Brown would need to vent out his anger, he would choose Alex as his prop and started to beat him mercilessly without catching any grief on his emotions.