The Last Embrace 314 Ultimate Betrayal

"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.

Jessy had seen the following events happening in Leo's memory...

Leo grows up in a loving family, then his father died of illness. His mother remarries to a s.a.d.i.s.tic, abusive and reclusive manor owner named Jackson and he was adopted and raised as his own. When his mother pa.s.sed 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 pa.s.sed.

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.

Until one day, he met an impoverished young lady neighbor with the same age as him, he was smitten by her beauty and courted her, they become lovers and planned to get married. His adoptive father welcomes the young lady into the manor...and they live like husband and wife under one roof. The wedding will take place after one year just to give the young couple a chance to get to know each other better.

Leo has never been happy in his entire life, Violet was a pretty young lady who adored him and they love each other so much. Leo finally knows how it feels to be treasured, valued and loved for the first time in his adult life.

It seemed his happiness poured from all directions because he noticed that his adoptive father no longer abused him physically and verbally as if the monster in him was finally gone due to Violet's presence in his life. Leo considers violet his lucky charm and for the first time in his life, he felt truly happy. He was nurturing a happy union with Violet as his significant other, they planned to have at least three children and Leo will make sure all of his kids would go to school and earn a college degree because he was an illiterate individual, although he knows how to read and write—that was thanks to her mother's teaching when she was still alive.

When Leo would come home doing errands for his adoptive father, he always noticed Violet's absence from their room several times.

One night when he comes home late at night, he can't found Violet anywhere, then he went to the bas.e.m.e.nt...

What he saw inside the bas.e.m.e.nt shocked him to the very core...

There...up in the bed...Violet was lying naked her face was contorted in delirious ecstasy with Jackson on top of her pumping her nonstop. Their heavy moaning and grunting echoed around the room.

Leo sunk on his knees gasping in pain, his tears streaming down on his face...he never felt so betrayed before.

"STOPPPPP!"... he shouted at the top of his lungs.

Violet and Jackson glanced at him, then ignored him and continue their erotic activity in spite of his presence.

Leo can not take it anymore, dragging his feet he left the bas.e.m.e.nt and went to his room on the second floor. He never cried so hard in his life, not even during the first time Jackson raped him that continues for many years.

All the happiness and the promised of a good future with Violet dissolved into thin air. She's dirty now! She let that vile Jackson touched her body and based on her expression she was not forced by Jackson she truly enjoyed what he was doing to her. He was wondering how many times they had done the sickening deed behind his back? Countless hours? Days or weeks already? Months probably because he and Violet were now in a six months relationship.

How can he be so blind, not able to see the signs?

Still, Leo endured the pain and in the coming days continue to hope that Jackson would grow tired of Violet and leave her alone. He never touched his girlfriend again, he never asks her why... he never let his anger get the better of him, he doesn't want to hurt Violet physically, he would just look at her with a detached look in his eyes, he withdrew inside his sh.e.l.l and Violet kept to herself as well.

Until they have grown apart from each other.

One day, Violet took all her clothes from the closet and left the room where she shared with Leo.

That night Leo knew where Violet had gone to, in Jackson's room, while he listened to their groaning, grunting and moaning outside the door every night as the new couple was actively engaging in their erotic activities.