73 Memories 2

"My – my eyes?"

For a few seconds, both Xander and Will could only stare at Liz, wondering whether they had heard right.

She had gathered all that just from seeing his eyes?

As Xander tried to wrap his head around this fact, he kept thinking again and again about the words she had just said.

A parent who worries about their children because they have no choice but to leave them.

Could better words be used to describe his situation?

This woman, whoever she was, had somehow managed to understand his innermost feeling just by looking at him.

She had even mentioned her mother, which made him wonder just what she had gone through to have branded that expression so deeply into her mind that she had managed to identify it instantly.

As the head of a major family whose operations spanned the entire world, Xander had a very strong intuition which had gotten him through many situations where he might even have lost his life.

Right now, this intuition was telling him that this woman was someone who understood him.

And from this fact, came the realization that she was someone whom he had been looking for without even knowing it himself.

And along with this realization, he made a decision which changed the fate of the Sylvex family.

"Before I answer that, I need to know something. Mr. William, if you give me something, I am ready to assist you however you want."

Will, who had been replaying Liz's words again and again in his mind, looked into Xander's eyes and saw something which shocked him.

In those cavernous depths where he had only seen the raging fires of anger and desperation before, there was now hope.

Understanding the importance of this question, he replied without any hesitation, "Just say what you need."

"A promise from both of you."

Saying this, Xander turned to look into Liz's eyes and spoke.

"Little missy, I am placing you in charge of an additional life. I don't know much about you, but something tells me that you are someone who definitely keeps their promises, no matter what. I need you to promise me that you will do everything in power to make sure that the one I entrust to you lives a normal life. Mr. William, set up a trust fund with $ 10 million that will be controlled by your PA here. You are in charge of ensuring his security, while she is in charge of making the decisions about his life. Little missy, I'm only doing this because I know that you are someone who understands what a parent wants for their children. I just want him to be happy. It is your job to make sure of that. Now, time is short. The sooner we make that agreement, the sooner you can get back to destroying my family. Send the order, and you can sit down to listen to my story."

Nodding immediately, Will walked out and made a call.

Only a few seconds later, he came back in and sat down before gesturing for Liz to do so as well.

Nodding and doing so, Liz tried to wipe off the expression of confusion on her face.

What was going on?

She had only barged into the room because she had realized what this man wanted. But now, suddenly, she was in charge of someone's life?

"Just like you said, my family is alive, but it is only my son. My wife died many years ago, and her dying wish was that her son should lead a normal life. The drowning was faked by me, and since then, both my son and wife have lived a sheltered life because they were in danger. To the outside, it might have looked like the family was fine with my marriage, but the truth was that my wife had enough power to order that both of them were to be killed the moment they were spotted. Even though I was the Head, there was no way for me to ensure that she wouldn't follow through with her wishes even if I killed her afterward. That is why I went to so much trouble, little missy."

As the tale started to unravel, Will couldn't help but keep glancing at Liz, whose image before kept appearing in his mind repeatedly.