Mommy, Where's Daddy? The Forsaken Daughter's Return

Chapter 100: Steven's Offer

7:00 PM at the Fort Eagle Military Camp holding facility.

"What is this?" Steven Wright asked after the soldier handed him a formal letter.

The soldier in charge sneered at the sight of Steven. He responded, "There are two. It's for you and your father. This is a transfer notification."

"After more than a month of seeing your arrogant faces, you are finally going to a far worse prison than here - somewhere you and your father deserve!" Told the soldier before letting out a laugh.

"What the!" Steven grimaced, grabbing by force the letter in the soldier's hand. He panted as he read the transfer notification and muttered, "No. No. No! This can't be!"

"What's going on, Steven?" Sawyer probed, seeing the panic in his son's eyes. He also grabbed the papers in Steven's hand and he frowned while reading it.

"How can this be? Why would the General order our transfer?" Steven asked the soldier, gripping against the prison bars. "Why would Ethan let us be moved? Why?!"

Sawyer also held against the steel bars and probed, "I demand to speak to Ethan Wright right this instant! This is not supposed to happen! Tell him! Tell him, we will give him the cure for his wife's illness!"

The soldiers who stood watch at the holding cell just laughed at them.

One sergeant staff said, "Don't worry, Mr. Wright will see you in your new prison. It's just a matter of time. For now, enjoy your new home! Haha!"

Despite the complaints and demands Steven and Sawyer threw at the soldiers, their words were merely ignored. They were mocked and given horrible descriptions of their new prison.

They were transferred to Braeton's Penitentiary that same night, just half an hour from the military camp.

It was there that Steven and Sawyer joined in other inmates inside their confinement cell and utterly displeased the father and son.

The two wound up arguing late in the evening, deciding on their next move, now that they were in a far worse condition than before.

Whispering to each other in the corner of their cell, Sawyer considered the possibility, "Ethan had not shown himself for a month. What are the chances that he already found out about the cure? He did say he will invest in BNU pharmaceuticals."

"Nonsense, Dad!" Steven looked at their other inmates before turning back to his father, "They would never consider it... I know BNU! They are too scientific! They will not find the connection."

"Besides, I bribed the quack doctor. He won't speak!" Steven said convincingly. He said, "Don't worry, Dad. When Ethan sees us, we will renegotiate - "

"He better! This was your fault, to begin with! If you only accepted his last offer and not let your dick get in the way, we would have gotten Ethan's wealth!" Sawyer could not help but scream.

"Dad, hey. Come on. Have you seen Ethan's wife? She is not a woman to pass on." He moved closer to his father and suggested, "We can even share Ethan's wife, huh, Dad - Ahhh!"

Sawyer gave his son a punch in the stomach! He pointed a finger at him and warned, "You and your unnecessary methods. If your plan fails, you know... we will lose everything! Our shareholders are even panicking at the news that we were held as prisoners! It will only be a matter of time before they go against us too!"

"Don't worry, Dad. I'll - I'll fix this." Frowning from the pain of being hurt by his own father, he promised, "I'll make things right."

***

Another month passed. Steven and Sawyer finally received a notice for a meeting with Ethan and their lawyers.

Panic had long engulfed them, not understanding how Ethan was no longer pleading for their help.

For the past two months, they received no word from Ethan's side, not even news from their own lawyers. It was as if they were abandoned by the people whom they have hired to aid them in their move to Braeton.

When the time came for them to see Ethan, Steven was ready to give in to Ethan's demands, no longer including Samantha in his condition.

In front of a round table, Ethan, Daniel Wright, and the lawyers representing both sides settled along with Steven and Sawyer.

It was there where Steven offered, "Ethan, I'm sorry, I was being hard-headed with your offer. I have finally agreed on your last offer." Despite the healed cuts on his faces, he managed a confident smile. "I'll take all your wealth and I'll leave your wife out of it. In exchange, I will tell you how your wife can be cured of The Kannareth Disease."

"Let's prepare the documents so we can be done with it," Sawyer swiftly suggested. "Shall we, Ethan, Daniel?"

Ethan and Daniel looked at each other before they both shook their heads.

A scoff left Daniel's lips before he told, "The nerve coming from you both! And you call yourselves a Wright? I wish I could strip off the name off you, considering you, Sawyer, are just adopted!"

Angered by Daniel's words, Sawyer slammed his hand against the surface of the table and yelled back, "That's exactly how you got the CEO position over me, Daniel! Just because I was adopted - "

"No, Sawyer, you were not chosen because of your mismanagement, and your actions today prove how you are not capable to lead a company!" Daniel shot right back. He swiftly took out a document and shoved it in Sawyer's face. "You and your son have been voted out by the board of directors of your own company!"

"What?!" Both Steven and Sawyer reacted, reaching for the document in Daniel's hand.

It was in fact a formal offer, stating the Sawyer and Son's board of director's decision and monetary offer to Steven and Sawyer. They were officially voted out of their own company due to the scandal they brought about against the Wrights.

"And as for the shares you have secretly bought in my company, we have done the same, voting you out as shareholders. All the proceeds to your shares will go to your abandoned wife and other son." Ethan handed another document in front of them and said, "The government will not allow you to manage your own finances, considering the harm you both are capable of doing."

"But Ethan! This cannot be! Why are you doing this?!" Steven retorted and suggested, "We still need to cure your wife - " Ccontent © exclusive by Nô/vel(D)ra/ma.Org.

"My wife is already pregnant and I am the father!" Ethan announced, slamming his hands against the table. He stood up and leaned over to Steven with a sneer. "I don't need a bastard like you to do what I am supposed to do!"

Seeing the shock and paled faces of Steven and Sawyer, Ethan leaned back and fixed his coat. It further gave him the confidence that pregnancy was really the answer to the disease, given how they froze in their stance. He asked, "What? You think I would not find out?"

"I am Ethan Wright! I have all the money to find out the truth!" He grabbed the settlement documents on both company shares and declared, "Steven and Uncle Sawyer, you both are going down! You have dug yourself a deeper hole this time around, one that you cannot get out of!"

"You don't know how much I am enjoying the sight of your frightened faces right now." Ethan took a deep breath and said, "Enjoy prison because you are going to be there for a very, very long time."

"No. No! Ahhh!" Steven's objections were halted by his own father's beating.

While Daniel and Ethan left the room, Sawyer was making a punching bag out of his own son. They could hear Sawyer scream, "This is your fault! This is all your fault!"

***

Getting on their luxury vehicle, Daniel said, "At least now, son... you can focus on being there for Sam and being a father."

"Yes, Dad. I am looking forward to it," Ethan answered with a smile. "I mean, how hard can it be, right?"

Daniel laughed and said, "Oh, as a child, you were a handful. I can't imagine twins!"