The Story of Blood and Roses Chapter 58

Published at 14th of June 2019 03:52:49 PM Chapter 58

The mission had been a success, obviously, and the soldiers were escorted back to US soil and their medical bills covered by the government . Two out of the four that were left committed suicide and the other two went through heavy therapy . Ethan had been discharged from duty with full honors while the other survivor had to be institutionalized . Coming out as the only one who truly survived, the man had found himself in a bit of a mess . He had nowhere to go and no one to turn to . The boy had been orphaned when he was right out of school and never attended college . He had opted for the army and continued to study free courses and took extensive training to reach where he had . He had no job or particular degree to land him one .

He then tried his hand at applying for jobs for guards in companies . He had believed that he would have to guard complexes and the sort but had ended up with no job . No one wanted to employ a man who was in therapy and in danger of being hazardous to people around him . Anthony had been the saving grace, as Ethan had earlier told me, and offered him a job as his bodyguard . This was before my mother was killed or him taking over the Murray businesses . So, it posed a huge question . Why had Anthony hired Ethan?

Surely he had not been following the footsteps of the people who were on a mission to seek his father out . This was around the time when people still thought that he was dead or underground . But knowing the cunning nature of Anthony, he might have plotted this out and turned the man against the people who had rescued him . It was possible . If Anthony provided Ethan with the money to get access to the basic necessities of his life he would, inadvertently, consider him his God or something of the sort . It was as simple as that .

Though, I had to admit that they had developed a lot from that . They didn't seem to have a relationship where Ethan was eternally thankful to Anthony for employing him . Theirs was a simple relationship . They could very well pass off as friends . They probably were .

That was not the main question . I had to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the man . His weaknesses would be his mental instability and vulnerability in small places . The man had a severe case of claustrophobia . His strength exceeded his weaknesses, though . He had a well-built man and able to employ a good level of force . Being a leader would make him a master strategist . His role as a bodyguard ensured that he could overcome any mental or physical attack . Last but not least, the man was fiercely loyal and would budge at no costs .

I was highly impressed by what I found about Ethan and didn't feel an ounce of pity for the man . He was a strong man and a soldier at that . He didn't need any pity . That could be a reason why he did not like revealing his story . He had mentioned to me that he was uncomfortable and hadn't opened his mouth during the debriefing after the interview as well . That was saying something . In light of the situation, his tattoos could also be a ploy to hide his wounds (the visible ones) . I imagined that they would stretch over all of his body leading him to ink himself over . Or he fancied the tattoos and wore them in memory of his battle wounds .

The mention of these things reminded me of what Sean had told me about Ethan being a brilliant secret-keeper . It made sense .

The boy knew much more than one could give him credit for . He would come in use in later times .

A smile spread across my lips as I considered the strength of the pseudo-informants I had gained and the fact that they trusted me . Now that I knew about the people who were operating the show that Anthony controlled, I could go into battle with the knowledge and prior plans prepared to destroy their plans .

All was done . What was left was to wait for Anthony to call me back to work . Waiting was not one of my strongest points . So, I tried proving Anthony wrong and went off to sleep . It was a personal challenge—to sleep longer hours until I was summoned to do my duties .

I won that challenge .

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