It’s Personal
The men don't hear from Loraine for several days.
Also, the couple is nowhere to be seen, but they know they haven't checked out, so they are still staying at the hotel. Aziel has told his friends what he has learned from the bartender. “Maybe we should consult a doctor about this. Isn't it dangerous to stop these drugs abruptly? And will she not suffer any damage to her health from this later?” Andre asks desperately. “That Danner is also an irresponsible man, who would do such a thing without good advice and guidance from an expert? The head nurse is not a doctor or a medicine specialist, for God's sake!" he annoyed.
Aziel also holds back. “Man, when I heard it, I had to stop myself from going up the stairs and strangle him. I first thought he was giving her drugs that were the harmless kind as a nurse dispensed them, but when I learned what they are actually for, oohhh Goodness!” he gritted his teeth. “Fortunately, that has now been avoided thanks to the attentive interior caretaker. We have to reward her for saving my woman’s life. But this Danner will be locked up again, I swear to you! The bastard!”
Kenjal shakes his head in disbelief, he has encountered the most insane things in his career, but that someone takes a woman hostage and feeds her drugs is the worst thing he experiences. And he is not a remote viewer, in this case, he is immediately confronted with the victim and perpetrator. He is certain that he will demand justice for Loraine when they get back to New York. And she doesn't have to pay him a cent for her case, he sees this as a personal reckoning with over-possessive figures who think they own people. For him it is absolutely not done to cheat a woman that belongs to another in that way.
He would have more respect for Danner if he tried to win Loraine for himself again. That would be a fair play on a fair battlefield of love. Loraine could decide for herself whether she came back to him or just stayed safe with Aziel. But he suspects that Danner knows in advance that he would not be able to convince her and therefore carried out this ultimate criminal plan.
Well, he didn't count on New York's most accomplished attorney to come after him. And if he estimates Monsanto right, he will come on board too, winning another love drama like this will make his law firm specialize in solving criminal love affairs. And there are tons of them in New York, so Monsanto will have to postpone closing his office for a few more decades, he laughs in his mind.
Not that he fears any competition from Monsanto. His specialization is in the other direction, but this case of Loraine is for him the reckoning with personal trauma. He was also drugged for years by a man who said he was in love with him. He was eighteen, still struggling with his sexuality when approached by his mother's boyfriend. Until now, he does not know what the pills were that he had to drink before the friend lusted after him. He knows he always passed out and only woke up after hours to find his body full of hickeys and his backside quite bruised.
He didn't dare tell his mother about this at that time. And a year later, when his mother encouraged him to live independently, he knew the boyfriend was behind this. And indeed, the man soon found him a student room, close to his own house. His mother who trusted him completely, was grateful and happy and innocently asked her boyfriend to check on him every now and then because he lived so close. Well, if she only knew.
After he moved out, the man literally came to live with him. They slept, ate and bathed together, he was like the friend's toy. The man paid his rent and utilities as well as all his school fees. All this out of sight of his mother. And stupidly enough, he let everything go, was exploited by this friend. This abuse went on for years until he could muster the nerve to tell his mother. Out of sheer guilt, she committed suicide.
A tear rolls from the corner of his eye as he thinks back to the drama.
It was his graduation party, the man attended appeared and acted as his partner. To the surprise of the other students, he came to stand next to him dominating during the party. Everyone knew he was gay but had never seen him with a partner. And then they saw the man, who most knew to be his mother's boyfriend. That caused disapproving looks, but also disgusted facial expressions. Kenjal did everything he could to make it clear to the man that his behavior was intolerable, but when he tried to put his hand over his shoulders, he finally had enough.
In an instant he had knocked off his hand and stomped out of the party. The friend had come after him, tried to intimidate him, but failed. The humiliation of the disapproving looks had now shocked him into adulthood and made him aware of the responsibility for his life. On the spot, he had told the man to his face that he was an abuser and disgusted. Kenjal had pointed out to the man that he was in a relationship with a mother and her son, which was unacceptable, and that he never wanted to see him again. Then he went home, where his mother was waiting for him to celebrate his graduation with the family.
But when he saw the man enter his house behind him, something inside him snapped and he confessed everything to his mother. The guilt was too heavy for the poor woman, she ran out of the house. Kenjal had never thought that she would kill herself. When he went to her house a few hours later to soberly discuss the case, he discovered her lifeless body. She had left him a note begging him forgiveness, she had trusted the boyfriend completely without weighing up her responsibilities to her son. His mother took all the blame for what happened, all she wanted from him was forgiveness.
Kenjal has never been the same after that.
With the help of friends, he got over the abuse and death of his mother spiritually. But the final settlement, the closing of that terrible chapter in his life, he never had. Loraine will avenge his mother's death, he will win her case grandly and bring her justice so that his mother too can find her peace...