33 Deception (2/2)

In the end we stopped in a large lobby area where the guards stayed in formation around me ensuring I didn't go anywhere. After a short wait Alexander Morrow entered through a side door and said, ”Guards stay here. Troy come with me.”

He walked into another room and I followed behind him. This was his study, their were crude furnishings that included three chairs a desk and a bookshelf. Alexander Morrow went and sat behind his desk and gestured for me to sit in one of the chairs in front of it. As he sat behind the desk he pulled out a necklace and placed it on the desk in front of him.

He stared at me from across the desk almost as if he was analyzing every aspect of my appearance.

Then he slowly said in an icy tone, ”There is only one reason you're not suffering unimaginable pain right now and if you can't tell me what this is you still will.”

He held up the necklace.

This is what I had been waiting for. The necklace was a pure gold color and in the front was a circle of gold with a silver rose inlaid in a ruby red gem shaped like a flame.

Without hesitation I said, ”It's mothers. On the back it says, To my beloved sons.”

Alexander Morrow eyes rose in shock and he quickly broke out into a huge grin.

”It really is you! I can fulfill my promise to her,” a long sigh escaped his mouth.

With that the first step of my plan came to fruition. Even in my past life their was something not many people knew about Alexander Morrow and if it wasn't for the fact that Sauer had thought I fell unconscious during one of the times he beat me I wouldn't know it either.

There isn't much Alexander Morrow cares about other than power and money, but when a young boy grows up in a household with a domineering father who spends all his time working he tends to be very attached to his mother. When his father's political career was taking off his mother had an affair with another man. Eventually his mother got pregnant and she hid it from her husband for months before he found it. When he found out he flew into a rage and forced her to give the child up, but to save face and for his career he stayed with her.

Alexander Morrow's mother was always sickly and when time came for his family to migrate to Agartha she fell ill and the doctors said she wouldn't survive the trip, forcing her to stay on earth. Before, he left his mother met with him and revealed to him the truth about his half brother and made him promise to find him and protect him in Agartha. She told him that she had the same necklace made for him and that's how he could identify him.

I heard Morrow discussing all of this with Sauer while I laid beaten on the ground in Sauer's office one time. I remembered it because I swore I would kill Morrows brother out of spite if I ever found him. Now this information was really useful to me. It was also then that I heard him mention his mother's maiden name, Hargrave. Morrow was revealing this to Sauer so he could perform a search for anyone going by that name.

This is why Morrow reacted the way he did when he heard me say that I was Troy Hargrave. That is also why I went by the name Young Lion in the arena because his mother's family crest bore a black lion. That is also why Morrow named his village Black Lion Village. All of my actions were leading up to this point. This is how I had planned to gain Morrow's trust.