Love Seduction
Chapter 52's. You are not your father

Lucius frowned hearing the name mentioned by Mike. As he remembered there was no confidant of his father by that name.

"Bertrand .. I don't think there's a confidant of my father named Bertrand, Mike."

"Maybe an employee or have worked at your company?"

Lucius shook his head while looking at Mike.

"If he was my father's man, I don't think my father would have asked a regular employee to meet Eliazar. He would definitely ask someone he trusted so much. My father's confidants have no name for Bertrand. You know her last name?"

It was Mike's turn to shake his head.

"No. Homer only remembers Eliazar calling the man's name Bertrand. If his memory is not wrong. It's been years and he almost forgot it."

"Eliazar this .. is the person who sold the information to your father?" Derek's voice suddenly asked making Lucius and Mike turn towards him.

"Yes ... Rudolf Eliazar's. He was from the Langton Clan. I think Mike knows who he is." Lucius sniffed his chin towards Mike.

Derek looked at Mike, voicing his question with a glance. Mike simply put on a flat face to answer the question.

"Someone who betrayed this clan. Not just selling information about Marinna. There are already many company secrets that he sells for his own personal interests. But Erland has handled it. The man died two weeks later ...."

Derek raised his eyebrows. He doesn't know this story. That name was the first time he heard it. His father Erland always told the genealogy of the whole family who were in the shade of the Langton Clan.

Was this Eliazar family once one of them?

Derek held back the question he wanted to convey to Mike in front of Lucius.

"Alright .. I resigned. I'm gonna ask some people who've been working for my dad since they were young. Maybe they know someone named Bertrand's."

Mike and Derek nodded.

"mrs ... Lucius, can we see your father? You know ... once someone my friend used to coma for a long time and use life support tools, then I took him to the best expert team of doctors we had. I don't mean to say your team of doctors isn't good, it's just that maybe you'd consider accepting a second opinion. Listen to the opinions of my team of doctors, or even get them to work together. For your father's recovery ...."

Derek put his hand in his pants pocket, feeling bad with the advice he gave. But his intention sincerely wants to help. Mike smiled softly, Erland's loving soul seriously declining on that son.

Lucius was somewhat surprised by Derek's offer. Didn't expect to receive attention from the man for his father. He saw sincerity in Derek's eyes.

"I'm so grateful, Derek. Any help for my father's recovery means a lot. I'll have Lance coordinate it with our team of doctors. I really appreciate your help. I hope you call me when your team is ready."

Holding hold of haru, Lucius reached out to shake hands with the two, then turned around and walked away from Derek's office.

Mike was still sitting on the sofa with both elbows resting on his knees and fingers hooked together. Waiting .. he knew Derek would voice his question.

"Do you know that guy?"

Derek sat down in front of Mike and looked straight into his eyes. Mike knew exactly who Derek meant.

"Yes ...."

"Who is he, Mike?"

"The man of your father's trust who betrayed his greed." Then Mike recounted the events at the Eliazar Mansion, which caused Rudolf to die by snipers, as well as being made into a shield and shot without mentioning the relationship that existed between him and Rudolf.

"I've never heard his name" Derek said.

"Because no one wants to remember that traitor anymore, Derek. It happened before Erland took you to Langton's Mansion."

"Is this guy an old family?"

The old family that Derek referred to was the one that built the clan from scratch. Support Langton even from the time of their great-grandfather.

Mike rubbed his face at Derek's question. It seems uncomfortable with that question.

"Yes ..," answered Mike quietly.

"Yes .. the man's father and his grandfather."

"Is Erland the one who eliminated this family from the clan? My point is to remove his name altogether from our clan so that I have not heard of this surname in the clan for many years. "

"No. Your father didn't do it . I'm the one who did it."

"You!?" Derek was shocked by Mike's confession.

With a deep breath, Mike got up and looked out the glass of Derek's building. The tall building gave a wide view of their city from above. The road that the vehicle passed by looked small from where Mike was standing. Like his current feelings that felt small and worthless . Embarrassed to bear Eliazar's name on his shoulder.

"Rudolf Eliazar is my father, Derek. He betrayed Erland and did everything in his interest. Including making my life a shield."

The shock made Derek speechless in his place. Slowly he digests and begins to clearly understand the reason why Mike erased the Eliazar family's tracks. The man shot his own son. When Mike was talking about the incident at the Eliazar Mansion, he did not think that Mike's relationship with the person who made him the shield was father and son.

"He shot you" Derek sighed.

"Yeah ..my life is completely worthless to her. Inversely with the assumption of Erland. Erland stopped her entire bodyguard and followed Rudolf's will to save my life."

And then silence broke. Derek let Mike alone with his thoughts. He waited, giving Mike time to remove the tightness in his chest. But a long time passed and Mike hadn't said anything.

"You have to get it out, Mike .. that wedge in your heart ...."

Mike closed his eyes. Why the pain in his heart did not go away, but many years have passed.

"Then Rudolf was killed outside the Eliazar Mansion. Like I said earlier, by the sniper .. a while after that I decided I wanted to leave the clan."

Moments later Mike was silent again. He swallowed his throat.

"Erland pleaded at the time, but I insisted. My intentions were well established, I no longer wanted to be in the Langton family .. Then your father started crying. He hugged me and kept begging me not to leave him. Said he'd lose his son if I left ...."

Mike's voice was so hoarse. With great difficulty she held back her tears from falling. Given very clearly Erland's warm embrace at that time, also the tears that Erland let out. The hug that ended up bandaging the wound in his broken heart and made him make up his mind.

"I finally fulfilled his request. He remained in the Langton Clan on the condition that Erland omit the surname Eliazar. Everyone in the Langton family was forbidden to mention that name again. Every family in Langton's shelter was warned to keep its mouth shut and bury Eliazar's name deeply."

"Including omitting your name ...." Derek sighed sadly.

"Yes .. Mike only. Erland's nickname is for me."

Derek understands everything now. Including the reason Mike refused his father adopted him as a son.

"Is this why you refused when I wanted to raise you as his son?"

Mike was seen removing something on his cheek.

"I don't need that letter to acknowledge him as a father. He's my only father. He finally adopted you anyway. I know he did it so I had a brother ... friend .. someone who doesn't know my mass and just thinks I'm Mike. Not an Eliazar ...."

After saying it, Mike quickly turned around and stepped out of Derek's office.

Derek just lowered his head to hold the tightness in his own chest. Derek remembered Erland and his affection for the two of them who were not his flesh blood. Genuine love and a great love.

"Mir ...."

Derek called Mike who was about to walk out his office door. The man's footsteps stopped, but he did not turn around. Just stand waiting.

"One thing I want to remind you, Brother .. You're not your father."

Derek looked at Mike who had stepped back from his office without turning his head.

Mike walked quickly into his own room. The words of Homer and Derek just ringed back in his ears.

You're not your father, Mike ....

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