The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter novel Chapter 1007

Chapter 1007: SIDE STORY (LOU): IN THE PAST

"Mama," A young boy that was no older than four looked at his mother with tear in his eyes. He stumbled toward his mother after he was being bullied by his other siblings. "Why they don’t want to play with me?"

Annelise had this beautiful smile on her lips, she was calm and collected when she carried her son in her arms. "Mama said not to play with them, right?"

She wiped his tears.

"But, why? I though they are my brothers?"

"They are, Lou. They are your brothers."

"Why I can’t play with them?"

"I am sorry, Lou. It’s mama fault." Annelise kissed her son and hugged him a little bit tighter. "Why don’t you play with mama?"

Lou looked at his mother, he didn’t want to play with his mother because she had been sick and couldn’t run as fast as him, but the sad look on her eyes made him nodded.

"Don’t cry, mama." Lou wiped his mother’s tears, in which Annelise didn’t even realize it. "I love you, mama. I am sorry for not listening to you."

"It’s okay, my dear."

And since that day, little Lou would only watch from the sideline, while his other five brothers played happily. In this way, he wouldn’t upset his mother and he wouldn’t get bullied. They couldn’t call him ’pretty’ anymore, because they told him that he looked so girly.

Lou was confused about why his father didn’t love him and his mother and why he lived in a big house with his brothers, while he had to live in a rickety house that the roof looked like it would collapse in any moment.

Lou also didn’t understand why there were a few men, who came to their house at night often. Lou didn’t like it, because every time these men came, he had to wait outside.

Mother would give him a warm blanket, a book to read and snack to eat. Most of the time, he would fall asleep and when he woke up, he would already on his hard bed, while his mother would have a piece of meat for them to eat.

Father would come, but it would be very rare, sometime they looked happy together, sometime they would fight, sometime he would hit his mother and Lou hated it when he hurt her, sometime, he would get hit too.

But, there was no meat the next day when his father left, actually there was no food for a whole day, because his mother would cry and do not want to get up from the bed.

There was a day when Lou had to gather coins and give it to his mother, so she would stop crying, because he knew his mother needed money.

He was little, but he was well aware that they were very poor, thus money was very important.

When his father left and his mother wouldn’t get up from the bed, there was money on the table, but also a few coins here and there.

After Lou gathered all the coins, he would hand them to his mother. "Look, mama. I found more coins. Can we buy meat?" he asked, but his mother would cry even more, while hugging him.

Lou had to feed himself during that day, therefore he didn’t like it when his father came. He liked it more when those strange men came, because at the very least, he could eat meat the next day.

And tonight, just like any other night, a man was inside with his mother. Lou had seen this man for more than a handful of time, he came very often recently and made his mother smiled often too.

Lou liked it when his mother was smiling. She looked beautiful.

But then, suddenly the door was opened when Lou was snacking, he looked up and saw the man smiled at him.

"Do you want to come inside?"

Lou blinked his eyes and looked at his mother. "I should be here until you left." He hugged the blanket around his body. He didn’t want to upset his mother.

"Don’t worry. It’s okay." He ruffled his head and Lou liked it.

Since that night, whenever he came, Lou was allowed to stay inside the house and he came often. For some time, it was only this man and his father, who would come to check on him and his mother.

Until one night when Lou felt his body was on fire.

"What happened with him? Do I need to call a healer?" the man asked in worry.

"Don’t worry, just leave. You don’t need to worry," Annelise said hastily.

"How can I not worry? He suddenly fell ill." The man argued. "Come, I will take him to the healer." He went ahead and was about to carry Lou’s body, but then he frowned. "He is burning!"

"It’s okay," Annelise pleaded with him to leave.

"You don’t need to worry about money, I will pay." The man insisted.

"No. Please, just leave." Annelise knew something, this was not an illness that a healer could heal. No one should know about this.