Chapter 9: Shadows From The Past

Chapter 9: Shadows From The Past

*Ding-dong*

A doorbell rang and a woman opened it some seconds later.

"Silas... Welcome," She said with a smile as she looked at the person in front of the door.

"Thank you," Silas replied and walked into the house.

"Where's Alex," He asked as he walked towards the dining, and dropped the food he came home with.

"In his room."

"Ok," Silas said and turned to look at the stairs, before shouting, "ALEX!"

Few seconds later, a scuffling sound came as a little boy ran down the stairs into Silas' arms.

"Brother," He said as he hugged Silas.

"How are you, Alex?," Silas asked as he ruffled his hair.

"Fine. Brother, you didn't go to work today?," Alex asked curiously. Alex is a kid who understands everything about his family, even his father's.... lifestyle.

Though he barely talks, he's aware of everything, and that includes Silas' work schedule.

Silas smiled when he heard Alex's question.

"Yeah, I didn't," He said as he ruffled Alex's hair, "Come sit, I bought chicken wings."

Alex's eyes sparkled when he heard what Silas said. "Chicken wings?," He asked with a drool in his mouth.

"Yes, chicken wings," Silas replied and pointed to the package on the dining table.

Alex saw what Silas was pointing to and took his seat.

After Alex had taken his seat, Silas invited Kim to join them and the three of them sat at the dining table with a plate of chicken wings in front of them.

Silas picked up a chicken wing from his plate and took a bite.

"I'm moving out."

".....Y-You're moving out?," Kim asked in surprise.

"I got myself an apartment and I will move in soon. Alex won't be coming with me but I will be coming home every weekend to check up on him," Silas replied, before he continued eating.

"Thank you...," She said with a warm smile, "This kind of brings back memories," She added and ruffled Alex's hair.

"Something similar happened between me and your father at work," She continued.

Silas looked at Kim in curiosity when he heard what she said. His father's previous job before becoming a bus captain has always been a mystery to him, and the fact that his father always talks about someone setting him up didn't help matters.

"You worked with him?," Silas asked curiously.

"Yes. He was the Sales Department manager and I worked in the same department for a year, before I was transferred to another department and was later promoted to be its manager," She said with a wry smile.

"Department managers?... That's some pretty high positions, isn't it?," He asked in surprise.

"Yes... it was high, just below the Director position and we were about to get the position," Kim said as she took on a soured expression.

Hearing what Kim said gave Silas even more surprise. His low Intelligence stat didn't mean that he was completely dumb. He understood what it means for someone to be in line to get a Director position in a company. It's no small feat.

"What happened then?.... If things were going so well, how did it turn out so bad?," He asked.

"Two things happened... It all started when the CEO was out for some medical situation and his son took over. Two weeks after he took over, we were fired and were served a lawsuit for embezzling company funds.

A crime we obviously didn't commit but what could we do? He already had forged evidence against us.

He said that the only way he can drop the charges is if 'I go at it with him' ," She said the last part in code because of Alex, and Silas understood, "This is was not actually the first time he asked me to do such a thing, neither was it the second, third or fourth.

He always took my rejections calmly but unsurprisingly, he didn't take the last one in the same manner.

We were about to stand trial when the charges were suddenly dropped, and we were told that if we don't want to go to jail, we should never show our face around the premises of the company, and that was by some armed boys who he sent to us," Kim said explaining the incident that happened at the office, and She looked at Silas and saw that he had a confused expression on his face.

"You must be wondering how your father got involved in the mess?," She asked and Silas nodded.

"It was because he stood up for me when I was being harassed by Lucas who is the CEO's son and that made Lucas very angry."

"Wow." That was only what Silas could say as he thought of the situation that Kim and his father went through.

As he thought of it, he felt a kind of familiarity with the name that Kim mentioned.

"Kim, what's this Lucas' last name?," He asked.

"Lucas Anderson."

'Yes. Anderson.... That's the name of that b*stard's father. The bastard who made my high school life a living hell, and the same person who stole his girlfriend from him.

A debt of two generations must be paid in full,' Silas said to himself with a creepy smile that sent shivers down one spine.