Chapter 220 The truth about James Bourne (2/2)
”I have so many questions.”
”Of course you do. Since you're here better ask away.”
”Why did Gabriel go through all this trouble just for James?”
”Not many know of this fact, but James is the actual son of Gabriel. The only people who knew of this fact were Margie and I as well as Hektor and of course Gabriel.”
The answer to the first question was shocking enough that it took Specter a minute to process the information he just heard.
”What?! James is actually Gabriel's biological son! Then who was the mother?”
”Hektor's sister Patricia.”
Specter was being bombarded by new information that was so intense he needed time to process each new information he received. Patricia was a former agent that was now deceased, same as Gabriel, and Hektor blamed the death of his beloved sister on Gabriel who was unable to protect her. It was an amazing fact, and made the whole family's situation so complicated.
”Okay then, if everything you said was real, then why did Gabriel not tell Oliver the truth? Why make him suffer? Why make him think that he was an orphan unloved by his parents?”
”It was also because of love that Gabriel never told Oliver the truth. His mother had passed away and it was father's fault that she died. Gabriel didn't want James to know this fact and make him grieve because of it. He also knew the world James was going to live in, would be harsher if he everyone knew he was James' father. If he acted as his father many of the members would've tried to kill him, or use him as blackmail material to become the next leader. Knowing this, Gabriel decided to watch over his son from a distance.”
Specter was not convinced by this reason, but he still accepted it as is.
”Then why did he need James to die and become Oliver?” This was the question that Specter wanted to ask, since the beginning of the story.
”It's all because of Hektor. His uncle who believed that his beloved sister was killed because of Gabriel's negligence hated the man to his very core. He wanted to tear him apart and make him pay, yet he was feeling conflicted since Gabriel was the man his sister loved, and she even gave birth to his child. In a way James and Gabriel were his family as well. Still Hektor was already mentally unstable because of his sister's death, and his conflicting feelings of wanting to kill Gabriel but couldn't made him even more unstable. Years of this mental torture slowly but surely broken Hektor, until it was obvious that Hektor had finally lost any semblance of his former self and decided to kill Gabriel. With this knowledge at hand, Gabriel knew that someday Hektor would try and kill him. If he succeeds he might try and kill James as well. Knowing this Gabriel devised a plan to save his son from his own uncle.”
Hearing the whole truth from Phil made Specter simply looked at him in a daze. The current leader Hektor was someone like that. Though most of the members of the Shadow Mercenaries were already on the verge of insanity but none of them were really on that deep level Hektor was at.
With this new information at hand, Specter started doubting Hektor's ability to command them. It also raises the question, does Hektor still believe in making a better world, now that his beloved sister is gone?