Third Person's POV:

The puzzled look on Brian's face, increased Adam's ire.

"You are asking me where she is? You are asking me why am I torturing you and your children?" Adam screamed and punched Brian hard on his face.

Brian fell on the floor, blood came out of his nose.

"Daddy!" Zack cried out.

"Daddy!" Zack knelt beside his father, who was lying on the floor.

Brian sat up somehow, he wiped the blood from on his nose with his sleeve.

"Dad-d-y-y!" Zack sobbed holding him. He clutched his father tightly.

"I-I a-am fine son." He stroked his son's hairs.

Adam was glaring at Brian and Zack, his eyes were burning. He was breathing hard and shaking in fury. He again launged toward Brian, his nostrils were flaring now.

"D-dad!" Zack cowered back in fear.

Dr. O'neil who was done injecting Fiona a medicine, saw everything from afar. But he couldn't stay quite anymore. He intervened.

"Stop it, calm down." He stood before Adam, blocking him from reaching Brian.

"Calm down, now it's not a time for this. I don't understand, Mr. Knight. What do you really want? Do you have any intention to let me treat her? You are constantly scaring her, she is already mentally unstable. Yet you are putting her in stress, in less than twenty four hours, she got three panic attacks. It's insane. She will go completely mad at this rate. Help me if you want her to get better. Or else let me go and admit her into an asylum." Dr. O'neil complained shaking his head in frustration.

Adam who was ready to pounce on Brian again, closed his eyes and taking deep breaths he tried to calm himself.

"I have again injected her sedative and she will wake up three to four hours from now. By then, decide what to do with her. She will get severely sick due to malnutrition."

Brian got up on his weak, shaky feet and begged doctor O'neil, "Please, make my daughter well." Dr. O'neil sighed and patted his arms, feeling pity for the helpless father.

Brian looked towards Adam. "I don't really know which enmity you hold against me and why are you being this cruel to me. But sure I feel we need to discuss this, alone. If I ever did any crime, I am the one to bear the consequences, not my children." Brian spoke.

"So, I would like to discuss everything with you, you and me. Don't include my daughter or son in this mess. They are innocent." Brian affairmed.

Reason screamed loudly in Adam's brain, he decided to talk to Adam in his study. He nodded reluctantly.

"Zack, dear, you stay with your sis for a while, dad will be here soon." Brian said to Zack.

"No, daddy. Don't leave us, he will hurt me and Fio." Zack protested.

"No one will hurt you, my brave boy. Believe me. Look after your sis. Do you remember how sis used to take care of you when you got sick? She didn't sleep at night, check up on your temperature and feed you medicine when you got fever. Now, sis is sick. Stay with her, I will be here soon." Brian cajoled his son.

"Okay but what if this devil hurts you?" Zack asked pointing finger at Adam.

"No, he won't. It was a misunderstanding." Brian pursuaded

the child somehow.

He followed Adam to his study and prayed to God to let everything be only a misunderstanding. He would do anything to save his daughter and son.

Brian was feeling impossibly scared, his body was shaking. His heart was beating fast in anxiety and fear

"So, please tell me, what if you are Jovana's son? Why are you tormenting us like this?" Brian questioned. Confusion was clearly visible on his exhausted face.

"You still dare asking why? HOW CAN YOU ACT LIKE YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING, BASTARD? YOU KILLED MY PARENTS, GIVEN THEM THE MOST PAINFUL DEATH POSSIBLE!" Adam roared, the entire study shook up in the force of heavy scream.

"Jovana?! And killing her? What are you saying? I didn't see her for almost 24 to 25 years." Brian stated.

"You think that you will speak bullshit and I will believe you? I didn't remember how you killed my father, you tortured my mother and me?" Adam asserted.

"That's why I took your daughter amd tortured her. So that you can understand how it feels. But regretfully I didn't know that she wasn't your daughter. But I can't help feeling happy looking at your eyes, you seem to got hit pretty hard." Adam sneered.

"What! You did what?! What the hell did you do to my daughter? Why did you torture her? She is innocent!" Brian exclaimed.

"I was innocent too. Did you think twice before leaving me with disgusting pedophiles?" Adam hissed grabbing his collar. Brian gulped.

"Listen, there is something great misunderstanding. I never kill anyone. And if you had to experience anything bad I am sorry but it's not me." Brian tried to convince him.

"You are telling me to forget what I saw with my eyes? Or are you trying to say that you don't even know my mother, Jovana?" asked Adam.

"I never said that, I know her but I didn't see her in last 25 years. We had a relationship for about two years but parted in the university. After that I didn't see her ever, she asked me to never contact her." Brian said reminiscing the past.

"Believe me, we were in a relationship but after that breakup I never saw her."

"Liar! Bloody lying bastard! You forced my mother to be your mistress, when she didn't agree, you tortured her, raped her and had your men rape her. You didn't even spare me, I was only six at that time. And you thought that I would forget everything and never get my revenge? What have I done was wrong, I picked up the wrong girl. But seeing the pain in your eyes, I can't regret my deeds. How about taking your son this time? This boy doesn't look weak, I am sure, he will survive a for year." Adam's eyes gleamed with nefarious sadism.

Brian's eyes widened in horror but a rush of raw fury and hatred hit him, hearing Adam's disgusting implication.

He slapped Adam hard. The sound of the blow echoed in the entire room.

"I am saying again and again, don't involve my children in these. They are innocent, both of them. You tortured my daughter, she is nearly mad. Now you are trying to torture my son,who is merely seven years old. Are you even a human?" Brian exasperated, his face cringed in disgust towards him.

Adam felt like his head was set on fire, his blood was boiling in fury.

"I was six when you started this and now I am not a human. I won't stop before destroying you!" Adam growled in rage.

"I don't know what you are talking about your mother Jovana and me. But believe me, I didn't see her in last 25 years. I swear by my God, my children." Brian said.

"Jovana and I met eachother when we were at high school. But our relationship started when we were at university. We had been together for two years to be precise. But for a reason, she had to break up with me. We both were okay in our relationship. But after a few years later, I met Isabella and found my real love in her. I loved her more than my life, even now, I can't imagine any woman other than Isabella. After her death, I never married or touched another woman. Why would I want to make Jovana my mistress? At that time, I was married to Isabella." Brian started.

"If you don't believe me then look for documents, I used to live in Japan at that time." Brian continued.

"Why would I want to look for documents when I can clearly remember you?" Adam shot back.

"I really saying the truth. Believe me." Brian desperately begged.

"Whose daughter is Fiona?" Adam asked.

"I met Isabella in Japan. I used to work in a company and was sent to Japan branch. I accepted the offer because the payment was huge. After six months, I met her. She was scared and running away from someone. People were after her. She was working at a restaurant. I liked her at the first sight. She told me that she had a child already and her husband was dead. She was running from the enemies and they were after her daughter." Brian explained.

"Who were after her?" Adam asked.

"Isabella was forcefully married to a mafia man Sergio. The elder brother of Sergio, Antonio, was leader of their mafia gang. But unfortunately Antonio was unable to give birth, he was impotent. Isabella didn't like Sergio. But Sergio impregnated her and even Sergio didn't know what fate the baby was going to have. If the baby was a boy, Sergio's brother had a plan to use it for the gang, he wanted to train him and make do many ruthless things. But the baby was girl, Fiona, unfortunately. Sergio's brother was furious and frustrated, he wanted to kill the baby girl but Sergio stopped him. Then when the baby was 9 months, Antonio, the power hungry man made a deal with the leafer of a mafia gang. When the baby will turn 16, she will be married to the mafia leader and he will give them power and money. And the mafia leader was 30 when Fiona was just born." Brian described.

"What?! It's ridiculous!" Exclaimed Adam.

"This is why Sergio protested his brother for the first time and got killed by him. Isabella ran away with her child. She went to many places to hide but mafia men were after her. She hid in Spain, Sweden and then went to Japan. At that time, Fiona was only one years old. I fell in love with Isabella and we married after two years. She isn't my daughter by blood but I love her more than my life." Brian's eyes welled up saying the last part.

"You have made a good story but I am not believing it." Adam spoke.

"Believe me or not. It's up to you. I didn't see your mother in last 30 years. How can I torture her? It must be a misunderstanding. You can look for the official documents of my job. You can go to Japan too. But please let us go, my daughter is very sick. She needs urgent treatment, if anything happens to her, I won't be able to forgive myself. Not Isabella will ever forgive me," Brian pleaded desperately and fell on his knees. Tears fell from his eyes helplessly.

Two days later,

Adam's POV:

"Boss here's the documents you have ordered for."

My ditective placed the bundle of the documents on the table. I tore the envelopes and started looking at them carefully.

My brows knitted in a deep frown as I began checking the documents. I saw all the photos, documents and all the copies of passports.

According to the documents, what Brian was saying was true. He really stayed for six years in Japan, it was during the time when my family was destroyed.

How could everything be false?

But I saw him with my eyes, that was also true. I couldn't forget the person or mistake the person who raped my mother, killed my father and let people torture me.

My eyes suddenly stuck in some images where Brian was swimming in the swimming pool. He was carrying little Fiona and teaching her how to swim. Fiona looked like she was about four or five years old. Scared Fiona was clutching her father's long legs, was crying, throwing tantrums wearing a baby pink child swimwear.

Brian was only wearing a short and was bare till his waist. And that's when the real confusion hit me.