Chapter 146 Changes in the Black Star Syndicate 3 (1/2)

”Oh, dad, I forgot about you.” Jason said apologetically. ”Now, back to business.”

”Why are you doing this?” Travis forced himself to ask with his hoarse voice.

”Because I remember, dad.” Jason inclined his head until their faces were almost touching. ”I'm doing this because I know what you, and your wife, did to my mother and myself.” His smile got a lot colder and his eyes glinted with complete hatred and madness.

”No wonder...” Travis suddenly came to an understanding and glared at Jason. ”You were behind my wife's death, weren't you?”

”Yes. I did it all. It was me who planted the bomb that destroyed her spacecraft when she have just left the planet.”

”Bastard...” Travis cursed Jason in a low voice. ”I should have killed you. A son born from that whore...I should have expected he would be of the same kind, treacherous and evil.”

”You're not mistaken about myself.” Jason was calm this time when he heard the curses that Travis uttered. ”But my mother...she was an angel, a perfect person. Her only mistake was falling in love with someone like you, a monster.”

Travis tried to move, but Jason acted swiftly and gripped Travis's hand that wasn't pinned down by the pen.

”She was innocent. You corrupted her. You destroyed her. And when you were done with her, you just threw her away, like a broken toy.” Jason's eyes became filled with rage as his grip slowly got stronger, making Travis's bones let out cracking noises.

”She tried to kill me! I acted in self-defense!” Travis tried to explain himself.

”Do you even tried to understand why she tried to kill you?” Jason walked up to Travis and asked by his ear, ”I tried to tell you a lot of times that there was someone making plans behind the scenes to kill you, but you never listened to me. The person which released the well hidden secret that you committed adultery and even had a son with my mother, when I was 5 years old. When I was 6 years old, this same person took me as a hostage and gave the order for my mother to kill you, or they would kill me. After what you, and your wife, did to her throughout years old unending abuse, it come to no surprise why would she rather choose to save her child and try to kill you. You might be wondering... who wanted you dead?”

Jason smiled at the constant changes in Travis's expression. Jason turned his head and locked his eyes at the old man's body on the ground, ”It was him, Travis. It was Opert. He wanted you dead the most. Your most loyal aide turn out to be the traitor you always wanted to find after those incident with my mother, your wife, and those assassination attempts.”

Travis's face twisted in anger and disbelief, ”You are lying...” He said in a low voice, almost whispering, ”LIARRR!!!” he shouted at Jason.

”Why would I lie? I don't have any reason to lie at this stage? After all, you are going to die today.” Jason calmly said with a chilling tone.

”You can't kill me.” Travis said while turning his blue eyes from Jason to the high officers. ”They would never follow you.”

”I would not place your hopes on them.” Jason spoke as his eyes went through everyone in the room until it stopped by the eight people that were left sitting. ”I already have my subordinates, loyal ones.”

”Yes, sir!” The eight that were previously in their chairs immediately stood up and saluted Jason without batting an eye at Travis.

”As for these ones...” Jason's cold eyes went to the twelve that stood up and we're questioning him. They instantly shuddered and lowered their heads. ”They aren't that big of a threat. I already made countermeasures if any of them decide to do something. If they betray me, I just need to use my backup to take control over their factions.”

Travis's face become uglier as his eyes showed despair.

”Father...” Jason lowered his eyes to look at Travis that had fallen in despair. He smiled at the sight and savored every moment of it, unfortunately he knew that he couldn't stay this way forever, so, he reached out his hand and gripped Travis's throat.

Travis was surprised by Jason's move and tried to struggle but Jason used his other hand and locked up Travis in his grip.

”...I'm done with you...” Jason's face was expressionless as he said those words and the grip on Travis's neck tightened. ”... goodbye.”