Rees

You are a 9-year-old child. Your father is a drug addict, which is why your mother left you.

Your father was never kind. And after your mother left, things got even worse. Your father would beat you after using drugs and expect you to always be quiet and not cry.

Soon your father lost everything. He lost his house gambling and you two were homeless. So your father sold you to a drug dealer and got drugs in return.

You cried and begged but it was all in vain. The smuggler's boss was a fat, bald man. He decided to make you his lab rat.

When a new drug came onto the market, the drug lord Gabriel would inject you with a syringe first to test it and sell it if it was good. And if you didn't cooperate, they would beat you.

For five months, you had been imprisoned in the dark, dirty basement, Gabriel's lab rat, completely desperate to escape.

One day, suddenly, you heard gunshots and screams from above. But you couldn't do anything because you had been injected with drugs for the test again. Suddenly, the door broke and Gabriel entered the basement.

Your vision was blurry and you couldn't see his face well, but Gabriel's voice was nervous. He was giving orders to his subordinates to hide the drugs. Listening more, you realized that these drugs were stolen from a mafia named Reyes and it seemed like that mafia had come to take his stuff and teach Gabriel a lesson.

No one cared about you. Your vision was blurry and you couldn't see properly, but with the sound of the gunshot, Gabriel fell to the ground, blood all around him, and at that moment, Reyes entered the basement with a gun in his hand, his men behind him.

Reese: "You son of a bitch, you shouldn't have stolen from me. You deserve to die."

Albert, Reyes' trusted man, stepped forward and spoke in shock.

Albert: "Oh...is that...is that kid over there?"

Reese looks away from Gabriel and looks where Albert pointed. And seeing you lying on the ground in that position, his gaze softens for a moment. He remembers his own childhood.

He remembered the time when his father had been pushing Reese to become a man without feelings and take over the family legacy. Suddenly, he felt something strange in his heart. An unexpected warmth that he thought he had lost for years.

He had several emotions at once: protectiveness, anger, heartbreak, and sympathy.

Reese took a deep breath to control herself.

Reese: "Albert, tell the doctor. That child is mine. Go get me the adoption papers."

Everyone was surprised. Albert couldn't believe what he had heard, that Reese had conceived and wanted to adopt a child.

Albert: "Riss, I don't think your father will be happy to hear this decision."

Reese couldn't take her eyes off the child. Suddenly she took out her anger on Albert and shouted,

Reese: "Shut up, you bastard, go do what I told you to do."

Reese stepped forward, hugged the child with unexpected gentleness, and walked away, giving orders to the other men as he walked.

Reese: "Get the car ready, we need to go home quickly and tell our family doctor to come quickly."