The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter novel Chapter 1008

Chapter 1008: SIDE STORY (LOU): IN THE PAST (2)

Lou was scared and he cried for his mother for hours, until his throat was dry. He was very thirsty. His body grew very weak.

He was thinking to break his promise to his mother.

But, on the fourth day, his father finally came. He opened the door and fed him. He put him on his lap and patted his back.

"You are my son. You are indeed my son. You are not tainted by the blood of that magic user. Good. Good."

Little Lou didn’t know what kind of feeling he felt right now, but he had this urge to burn this man, just like what his mother did to Paul.

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"There, sleep there with your filthy mother."

The beautiful woman in his early forty, threw little Lou into the dungeon, where they kept her before the execution tomorrow. Lou didn’t know that yet, but he was happy because he could spend his time with his mother.

Annalise hugged her little son, she didn’t cry, she was smiling, because she didn’t want to scare her.

"Mama, why are you here? Did you make a mistake that upset father?"

Annalise nodded. "Yes. I think so." She kissed Lou’s cheek.

"Why don’t you apologize? If you apologize, will he forgive you? Let’s go back to our room, it’s cold here." Lou didn’t like to be here.

"I am sorry, honey. I can’t." Annalise shook her head.

Lou looked devastated, his clear black eyes welled with tears and this hurt Annalise physically to see that. "Why, mama?"

"Be strong, Lou." Annalise kissed his forehead and Lou told her that he was strong. He didn’t use his power when his father forced him to.

Hearing this, Annalise looked shock, but when she learned no one knew about it, she looked visibly relax.

"You have done a great job, Lou. I am so proud of you." Annalise hugged her little boy and wrapped the blanket around him, even though this dungeon was very cold for her.

"Mama, why they are so cruel to us? What we have done wrong?"

"Nothing, honey." Annalise was silence for a while before she spoke again. "They are cruel because they can. Because they have the power to be cruel."

Lou didn’t understand that, but years later, he would get the taste of what power could offer to you.

"Mama, how long you will stay here?"

"Not for long, honey. Not for long."

Later that night, when Annalise thought Lou had fallen asleep, she cried silently, as she whispered to her only son.

"You have to be strong, honey, you have to live. Don’t cry, baby. You have to be powerful enough so no one will bully you again. I love you, Lou. Mama loves you."

What Annelise said was right, she didn’t stay inside the dungeon for so long, because the next day was her execution.

And to show his kindness, Lou’s father let her wore her favorite red dress, where she would be burned with it and also bring Lou along to watch his mother for the last time.

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Lou just got back from the execution with his father. He didn’t cry, he watched everything. He witnessed the pain in his mother’s eyes when the fire burned her alive. He saw how people cursed at her.

And when there was not a single tear that he shed, his father praised him. He told him how a good son he was to not cry over trivial things.

He was a good son because he didn’t cry when he watched how his mother died.

Meanwhile, the moment his father left him alone, his other five siblings came and mocked him. His father’s wife looked at him with a derisive smile on her lips, they provoked him in hope, he would attack them or having a meltdown, so their father could punish him for bad behavior.

"How was the show? Devil child?" The first brother asked.

"Your mother was so pathetic, I heard her cries. A witch shouldn’t cry."

However, it didn’t turn out as they expected. Lou actually laughed, he gave them a sweet smile.

"How do you know? You are not even there. We should have watched it together."

Lou was only six when he expertly masked his emotions and laughed with them, until they stopped and called him a freak, who laughed upon hearing the death of his own mother.

Later on, Lou learned so fast about how to do trade, he started following his father around, as a merchant, he would travel a lot.

Meanwhile, his other five siblings were too lazy to move their asses. Lou was nine and the oldest of his half sibling was nineteen, while the other were only a year apart.