Father’s Business
Detective Connor listened as the Judge called out Mr Harold, a multimillionaire business man jail sentence. He knew there was no way Harold would be seeing the light of day again, the man would be spending the rest of his lives behind bars and Connor had no doubt about that. It still amazes him how they had apprehended Harold. One case had simply led to the other.
Connor remembered how he had been assigned to Harold’s son case after Harold reported the kidnap of his son to them. The kidnappers had sent a video to Harold threatening to kill his son if he didn’t play ball.
Harold had given the video to Connor and his team and after analyzing the video, Connor had been able to pinpoint an exact location where they believed Harold’s son was been held captive.
But when Connor and his team breached the place, they realized that the reverse was the case. Unlike what Connor and his team thought, Harold’s son had not been kidnapped by anyone, he had kidnapped himself.
Connor had taken James, Harold’s son to the station for more questioning and that was when he realized the real motive behind James plan. Few hours later, Connor and his men were placing Harold in handcuffs and into one of their cars.
James had told Connor how he found out about his fathers human trafficking business and had hatched a plan to stage his kidnap in hopes to blackmail his father into exposing himself. A plan that had failed woefully because Harold had refused to do as they said.
James planned had failed but he had gotten what he wanted at the end. “It must be tough, a son doing the right thing by exposing his father.” Detective Connor said to himself as he quietly slipped out of the courtroom.
This is perhaps the saddest kind of story, where a child's disillusionment leads to betrayal of a parent. The conflict at the heart of this story is almost without solution. Either the son allows the father's criminal behavior to continue, or the son betrays the father.
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the plot of this story evidences little effect between parent and child in either direction of the relationship.
Among delinquent parents it's not uncommon, @prayzz.
I would have liked to see the motives of the story more developed.
Oh yes, that would indeed be a tough thing, for the son to do the right thing by getting his father put behind bars!
An interesting twist :) James must have wrestled with the decision for a long time.
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