Chapter 314 - Ultimate Betrayal (1/2)

After landing in her room, Jessy went back to the study room to collect Leo. She was surprised to see the queen sitting on the sofa sporting a troubled look in her eyes.

”Mother, I'm back. Can I take Leo now and send him home?” she asked.

Queen Margaret gave Jessy a petrified look. ”Child, I think you can't bring him home. You have to bring him to the police station right away...”

Jessy's eyebrows knitted together. ”Huh?” she can't understand why the queen mentioned sending Leo to the police station. ”Why, Mother? What's wrong with Leo?” she asked, puzzled.

”This man is a murderer!” the queen blurted out.

Jessy's eyes widen. ”Huh? Mother, what are you saying—?”

”I'd seen his memory, I'd seen everything when he was still a young kid...how his adult life had formed and how he killed the two people closest to him before he was abducted by the savage vampire...” the queen has seen too much and the horror of what she saw in Leo's mind reflected in her eyes.

Jessy looked at the frozen Leo, based on his profile you won't even think he can hurt a fly. He was just like any other ordinary person, nothing is alarming about him. Then she remembered their conversation earlier and he was telling her that he will kill those people who intruded his home.

”Mother, is there a way I can see what you had seen in his memory?” she said wanting to see what the queen was talking about.

”No problem, child, come here, sit beside him so that I can start the process of connecting his memory to yours...”

Jessy sat down beside the frozen guy, and the queen placed her right hand on Leo's head and her left hand on her daughter-in-law's head. She then starts the process of showing Jessy what are the events that transpired in Leo's life beginning from being a young toddler up to his adult life, including his abduction. Everything happens like a movie playing in her mind...a bit too fast but Jessy understood what was happening in Leo's life from the very beginning to the very end.

This is what she saw in Leo's memory...

He grows up in a loving family, then his father died of illness. His mother remarries to a sadistic, abusive and reclusive manor owner named Jackson and he was adopted and raised as his own. When his mother passed away at the tender age of eight years old due to a mystery illness, that was the time Leo suffered torture in the hands of Jackson and then the nightmare began. He was beaten physically and verbally abused by Jackson, then one day the worst finally happened, Leo was raped by Jackson, not only once but many times during his adolescent life. Every day, his hatred for his adoptive father grows in leap and bounds until he was secretly plotting to kill Jackson in his mind.

Every day before Leo would fall asleep in his bed thinking of many ways to bring an end to his adoptive father's cruelty.

Years passed.

Leo endured Jackson's cruelty without doing anything about it. He was holding on to the last shred of humanity that was left in his mind and heart. He was dreaming of the day that his adoptive father would change his ways, if not, he wishes that he will just die on a natural cause so that he can finally be freed from Jackson's cruelty. He can't leave the manor because Jackson was his only relative and he was heavily dependent on him for a living since he was not allowed to go to school.

Days, weeks, months ruled into years.

Finally, Leo turns 18 years old.