From Prison To Power

Chapter 170 – Jonathan’s Past Regret

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Although Jonathan had no idea about Glenn’s background... where he came from, who his parents were, or whether he even had any, one truth had always remained unshakable: he had liked the boy from the start.

No… in fact, liked was too small a word. As he often told anyone who would listen, he had long regarded Glenn as the son he never had.

But it hadn’t started out that way.

Jonathan could still remember the first time he had seen the scrawny, wide-eyed, homeless, and pitiful boy all those years ago.

He hadn’t brought Glenn to his home back then because he admired him or felt some instant connection. No.

He had only taken Glenn in out of nothing but pure pity… pity for the barefoot child with nothing to his name: no food, no home, no family to shield him from the cruelty of the world, and nothing.

Yet, as the days turned into weeks and the weeks into months, something had shifted within him.

The boy who had come into his house, looking lifeless, hollow, and with nothing