Chapter 484 - Another attack (8)

25 May, David Hwang's Villa, City K 

A little after an hour later Joan settled down on the couch in their suite with David, with them both sated from their steamy shower.

Leaning back on David, Joan pressed on him before saying "That was a great start to the morning. You know I like using Naomi as in the end we control her. She has no idea that we set her up, and what happened was totally within our control."

"Mmmm. You and I both know the outcome of me watching that."

"Totally amazing s*x for the two of us, but someone we control."

Snuggling back slightly Joan said "You promised me when I agreed to let that happen, even though it was something I always wanted to experience that you would tell me why you needed that material."

David paused and said, "You trust me?"

"Absolutely. I will go to hell and back with you and know that you will do the same for me. Breaching that trust is something I will never do. I am committed to you whatever comes as you are my life. Are you to me…?"

"If I tell you why, my life is in your hands. Does that not tell you how committed I am?"

Joan nodded her head.

Moving so he could gather Joan better in his arms David said, "It is a long story."

"Take all the time that you need. Lexi can go nowhere," Joan said with a smile.

"Everything has a history, and mine goes back to when the government claimed my parents, grandparents and other family members including my cousin David's parents. They were not traitors and they did not deserve what happened to them…"

Joan twisted slightly and said "You have told me about that. I know how much it hurts you to talk about that time."

"It still hurts even to today, but what happened there has shaped me. We were dumped in an orphanage. I was not stupid, and I knew that we were constantly being watched by the state, but in some respects, I clung to the relationship with Robert because it was all I had. While we both hated the state, there was always something to me that told me Robert's hate was not as deep as mine was. I do not know why."

"While we were in the orphanage, Robert was drawn to serving the same state that did what it did to our family. Me, the developing information technology sector was what drew me. Plus, I was much better academically. About the time we both left the state care system, Robert a few days before me, when we turned eighteen, I was offered a full scholarship to university, which I decided to take. Robert, decided that he would join the military."

"At the time we formulated plans to get justice for our family, using our skills and what we did, but of course we drifted apart. Robert threw himself into his career, to a point losing sight of getting justice for what happened. Me, I never lost sight of that goal. I needed at the time, and even to now get the justice that was denied my family. As I followed what interested me, during university I founded what is now my company, focusing initially on niche products before slowly expanding firstly in the information technology field but into other areas."

"Commendable, but that it not everything, if you are being honest with me David."

"True. But developing my business was a means to an end. You have seen the people close to me here. They fall into two types."

"For want of a better term the geek types."

"True. Because of the competitive nature of the IT industry I keep key personnel close, not only to protect my investment in them but to enable them to develop products freely. But there is the second group…"

"The more macho type. I just though they were about protecting the geek types?"

"In part, but there is more to them then meets the eyes. It goes back…"

"To your need to get justice. You have a plan, David."

"I do. The other thing that I have done is work in the illegal sides of the world. There is something to the saying it takes a criminal to catch a criminal. Some were recruited to protect my IT investment by looking out for people sniffing around by business. That was something I learnt from my family. Protect your business at all costs, even if that means shifting into the illegal world."

Silence filled the room before Joan said, "That is not everything is it? It is about getting justice isn't it?"

"Everything is but getting justice for what was done is never going to happen without hands being forced. The truth was destroyed and there are two many people in high positions that need the truth of their actions hidden. To force hands, I must resort to illegal actions. Robert is never happily going to be in that, but I have been able to use him to help my cause. For years, I refused to see him face to face but was willing to communicate with him via burner phones, more because I wanted to protect myself. That communication let me give him information that helped his career but helped what I was doing."

Joan quietly said, "Stop dancing around telling me truthfully what you were doing."

Sighing, David paused. This was make or break as telling Joan this meant he was throwing every secret at her and it could either work or come undone spectacularly. The question was which outcome would be the case. 

David closed his eyes for a few seconds, took a calming breath before reopening them. "What I have been doing goes back to the foundation of the company. At the same time as my legitimate business activities I moved into the criminal underworld, to establish myself there…"

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