The Man I Became... Because of You (Completed)

KenoLing Side Story 2

The next paper was a series of medical reports. He read through them in a detached manner, his mind noting what was done to him and filing it away to be picked apart later. 

Next was a picture. He had been expecting it. Keno wasn't the type to let something like that happen and not get his revenge. Oh. He had killed him that same night. 

A dry chuckle escaped him when he read the note that Keno regretted not doing more damage. That felt accurate about his personality. 

Next was a picture of the Senator then a picture of another woman. Her name was Ling Maihui and she came from a Chinese family who were very rich. She had control over 2 brand companies when she married the Senator and her controlling interest went to her son Tom. He would inherit it all fully when he was 25 years old. Currently the family lawyers and Keno was taking care of it all. She had been an only child. Cancer had killed her. She had been buried in China as per her request.

Oh. So that was who he went to see every year. Why had Keno never told him? Then again there would be too many questions he would ask and Keno hadn't wanted to tell him then. 

Such was his trust and faith in Keno that he didn't question it much. Then came a tape in a forensic bag and a transcription of that tape. It was a conversation between Keno and the Senator. 

He acknowledged that he used to have a son but he also commented that he could always have more children. He needed more money so he used the enemies of his platform to stage a situation that would get rid of his brand new wife and the son he had with another. Of course it had hurt him. He was deeply scarred. He had only just remarried for a couple of months.

When Keno had asked him if he knew his new wife had been pregnant the man had fallen silent. It was clear that he had been more than aware when his answer was, "I'm not ready for another child right now. Things are going too well for me."

It didn't surprise Tom that Keno would be able to get all of this out of the Senator. His father, A, was quite famous and if you were allowed to have a seat with any of his representatives then you were set for life. He didn't send his people to see you if he wasn't about to give you his backing. That was a known fact.

Finally, Tom came to the last item in his folder. His father's death. He was sure that Keno was behind it. He wouldn't be able to help himself, what with the decisions his father had made. There were many ways to get rid of a child but Keno didn't have it in him to tolerate an adult selling their child to a sex slaver. He wouldn't and couldn't let something like that go.

He opened the door. "Tan," He called softly.

"Yeah?"

"Are you going out?"

"Yeah. I have a date."

"When are you bringing her home?"

"When I'm ready." Was all he said but Tom could tell he was scared. His parents had chosen someone for him a long time ago as they had done for Keno but while Keno was hard to control, Tan had always appeared filial. 

"Do it now while I have everyone upset."

"They aren't that upset. They saw it coming since you did community helpers in preschool."

"Shut up. No way."

"Idiot. Are you going to stay here all night?"

"Maybe. Anyway you should bring here. Maybe they're just waiting for you to bring her. To show that you trust them."

"Do you still trust them?" Tan asked softly, his eyes on Tom, watching, waiting.

"Of course." Tom said without thinking. "This is my family. None of you have ever hurt me or treated me like I didn't belong. You let me hide in here and even installed a light for me."

"I don't need that thing. I have a walk-in closet now."

"That's not the point. He didn't deserve to fucking live if all he considered me as was a source of income. I may be young but I'm not stupid. I know what family is and I know you guys love me. I have never felt like an outsider or any less than the son of A and Bee. Granted I am trying to get into an incestuous relationship with my 'brother'."

Tan snorted at the blush that stained Tom's cheeks and shook his head. "The only one of us you never saw as related to you was Keno. Don't lie to yourself. I'm more of your brother than he is. Not that that's a bad thing." He ruffled Tom's hair before walking away. Tom watched his back and nodded.

He closed back the door to the closet and stayed in there for the night. In there he pulled out his phone and looked up everything he could about himself and the Senator. While there was quite a bit on the man, especially when his secrets were exposed, there was very little on him other than that he had survived his father's assassination attempt and would soon inherit a bunch of shit he didn't care about.

Finally he thought about the thing he had shoved aside.

He didn't even remember anything about that night. He remembered pain and then Keno always by his side after that. He didn't remember being raped or hurt. He didn't even remember his life with his father or anything other than Keno. Looking at any of the faces didn't even trigger a memory. 

"Did I even live with this man?" He looked at his father's face and imagined he must have had some sexy nanny the guy would bounce on in his spear time. He seemed like the type. His mother had died of cancer when he was three. Her time at the hospital might have been the most she had ever seen of her husband.

Despite his random thoughts on his father, if Tom had made a bet with the devil, he would have surely won. The man had been detestable, having an affair with the nanny and largely ignoring his little family because 'work was crucial right now' when his wife asked him to come home. He made 'efforts' to clear his schedule and fed her the usual bullshit of 'I'm doing everything for our future'. 

Tom felt sorry for the woman he thought his mother might be and even felt a bit sad for the woman who could have been his next mother. 

"If I don't remember it then do I have to believe it happened? I'm the freaking tree in the woods that fell but how would you know if you never heard me crash to the earth? If I don't remember I was raped then my virginity is still mine to give to whoever I want. That's my take and I'm sticking to it." He decided rashly and got out of the closet. He locked the door behind him and stormed off to Keno's office. He burst in and came to a stop in front of the man who had been patiently waiting for him to appear.

"I don't care what the doctor's report says. I don't remember any of it so that means my ass is mine to give to whoever I want. I made a promise to you and I'm not breaking it. I know what I feel and I'm telling you right now I'll be back in 2 years to let you know just who you belong to. Got it? Good!" And he stormed back out, his heart racing, his mind suddenly free of any and all constraints. 

He was going to be a police officer, and he was going to figure this thing with Keno out and yes, it might be hard but he was going to have both of them. No one could tell him otherwise.

No one.