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Chapter 27: Burning Ambition

"He now wants me to be his hostage?" Raul asked, confused. "Why has he taken Melinda in the first place?"

"Because he is using her as bait to get you," Reese explained to his troubled son. "Your uncle has some serious issues from the past and he has an attitude of entitlement."

"But why would he feel like that?" Raul asked. He felt as if he had walked into a world which he never even knew existed and now he was expected to play his part in it.

"He is not all that well mentally," Reese responded. "He did something really awful and that's why he was incarcerated in a mental institution for the past fifteen years."

"But then how can you say that Melinda is safe with him? He can just snap again at any given moment, can't he?" Raul remarked.

"At the moment, I know that he is alright because I spoke to his doctor," Reese responded. "The reason why he ran away is because he is desperate to get his life back together."