Belated Redemption

Summary

I was the biological son the Rhodes family had spent years searching for.

Upon our reunion, all I wanted was to feel accepted. I learned to agree with everything they asked of me, no matter how unreasonable it sounded.

Whenever they gave me an order, I followed it.

I never questioned them.

One afternoon, Reagan Rhodes, the boy who had lived as the Rhodes family's son in my absence, glanced at me and snarled in disgust. "You smell awful. Why don't you get inside the sterilization chamber and disinfect yourself?"

I turned toward the industrial machine without hesitation.