Chapter 485 - Another attack (9)

25 May, David Hwang's Villa, City K 

Joan felt David stop and draw a deep breath. She turned in his arms and looked David directly in the eyes. One glance told him how vulnerable he was in talking about this.

She reached up and caressed his face before saying "You know I love you, so no holding back. I will never betray you because I trust you completely. You have earnt that trust. Yes, you manipulated me with my sister, but you know I know that it was about one thing. Your worry that I would not commit to you, so you felt that you needed to have me under control and used her own foolishness to get what you needed."

"How…?"

"How did I know? I was shocked for a couple of days, but soon realised what the truth was. It told me everything I needed to know. Your vulnerability in our relationship. You worried that I would desert you, but you should know that will never happen. You complete me and I know I complete you despite you not saying those words."

"David, that completion comes back to everything about us. We have similar s*xual preferences, including the occasional indulging in same s.e.x and group activities, but when it comes down to it, we want each other more than anything else, including all the games that we indulge in. Most people would think that I am crazy, but I love our master and slave s*xual relationship, because it makes me feel secure in every sense of the word."

David drew her back hard against his chest and said, "You have that right about our s*xual relationship."

"I know. In feeling safe, my love," responded Joan, "I have been willing to open up and tell you all my secrets, including what happened as a teenager when on holidays with my friends. You could use all of that against me, but I know ultimately you will not. That is how much I trust you. Now it is your turn to trust me. I cannot help you get justice if you do not tell me everything because your goals are my goals."

"Are you sure about helping me achieve justice and all my goals."

"Absolutely, so tell me everything because without it I can not do what a wife does for her husband. Support him fully."

With that, David was certain in telling Joan everything would be worth it. He knew her secrets, and in being willing to keep them, he could trust her to keep his secrets.

"As I was saying, I also moved into the criminal underworld. I knew that my legitimate business would give me standing within the country, but it would not allow me to get my revenge. From how quickly the government moved from arrest of my family to their execution there was one clear lesson, those who have power have force to back up their actions."

"There is no way that the government would do anything other than let me have some personal security around me, because they would be worried about what I would do and would act to prevent me having too much power around me. Robert's decisions made their monitoring of him easy and rid them of their worries. Moving into the criminal underworld, over time has let me establish the force to back me up…"

"Not that easy David, you forget, I told you about one of my former lovers, a cheating arse and his family. Power in the criminal underworld does not acc.u.mulate quickly unless you can act spectacularly. Ut takes generations for organisations to build it up."

"It does but…"

"Hang on, I remember what that cheating arse complained about. The underworld was being shaken up by a ghost. People who got involved with the ghost had one of two ends, the survived but were under control of someone or were destroyed."

"Mmmm, keep going."

Joan paused, turning to look David in the eyes before saying "That was you?"

"You made the connection. That arse, as you call him was correct. It takes generations in the criminal underworld to build up power. But I could not wait that long, as it would mean those involved, who are now even in higher positions of power, would never pay for what they did. But I have a skill set that is well desired in that world. Leaving aside my IT skills, I can organise to get results quickly. For any group, in the underworld you only protect yourself and advance if you can act. So, I used those skills, and recruited people to my cause. Yes, some have come to my legitimate businesses and like me move between the two worlds, others have just stayed in one world."

"There is something that you are not saying?"

"There is only one way to get my revenge and effect the change that is needed in this country so innocent people like my family are not railroaded and killed simply because they stood against those in power?"

Joan pondered those words for a couple of minutes while silence filled the room, before saying "Bring down the system to rebuild it? That would be problematic?"

"Depends on the way that you proceed. The power from change must come from people and turning them against the government will see those responsible panic then I can expose everything before seeing them destroyed. That will result in the change I want, no the change the country needs, which will achieve justice for my family, and I will have me revenge."

While feeling concerned, Joan knew that David's words were true. Those with the power controlled everything, and you never changed things without destroying them. That is how her father for years controlled the whole family and it was the shift that saw her free her mother and sisters to live their lives, just as she was living her life. A smaller scale, but no less the same.

"David, you have come this far. You helped me deal with my father and brothers, now let me repay the favour. I want what you want, and I will do what I can to help you achieve it."

"You only get the people to act when there is something scarier than the government that has people being like sheep and simply complying with their requirements. You terrify them to get them to act the way you want."

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