169 A PUNY CHILD (2)
Josh, was the name of the man, who was so drunk to even realize that he was hitting a six years old girl, who was crying, begging him to stop, while Eros stood across the room, trying to discern the whole situation.
He realized the whole fa?ade of this family on his fourth day to be part of this ‘family’. He hit and kicked Elise whenever he was drunk or even when he was sober or when the woman annoyed him by asking for more money.
However, this was the first time for Eros to witness how he struck Emily’s small face with the back of his hand, as the girl flailed her limbs to ward off the attack. It was a futile attempt, of course.
And when the man was about to slap the little girl for a third time, Eros didn’t think twice before he rushed toward him and hit him with a glass that he was holding.
The glass collided against his head and his eyes rolled back as his hand reached up to touch his bleeding forehead.
Emily was screaming, Josh was groaning and Eros was just standing in his place, watching the man fall to the floor miserably. He didn’t die, he just passed out, but the scene of him bleeding out on the floor was a little bit horrifying for children to see.
Emily curled her body and covered her face with both of her hands, sobbing until her whole small body was trembling.
“Hey.” Eros approached her, he knelt down and nudged her shoulder, but she cried even louder. Now, the little boy didn’t know what to do except to wait for her to stop crying and calm down a little bit.
And apparently, after she finished crying because of the pain on her face, she started snoring.
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The little girl was sleeping after a fit of crying and this left Eros with a frown on his face. He nudged her body again, she whimpered, but didn’t wake up, she stuffed her mouth with her thumb, sucking on her finger because she was hungry.
Eros remembered that the last proper meal that they had was two days ago and after that, they could only rummage the kitchen and eat anything there, which didn’t do much for their appetite. It was in the evening already and their ‘parents’ had been fighting for hours now, neglecting them.
Actually that was not something new for Eros, because they barely realized that they had two small children in this house.
Confused about what to do, Eros came closer to her and carried her to the next room, their room, where he shared the smallest room in this house with her, leaving the two unconscious adults on the floor.
Eros could only hope that he wouldn’t remember anything and even if he remembered, there was nothing he could do about it, since it was impossible to kick Eros out of the house. They needed the money that came with him after all.
Inside the bedroom, Eros put Emily on the only thin bed and tucked her in with a worn out blanket.
It was either she was too small that made her weigh nothing or it was because Eros was a non- human being, who was stronger than a normal eight years old boy, he could carry her around effortlessly.
Eros walked to the other room again and picked up Emily’s teddy bear, as he walked toward their room and put it between her arms, as she snuggled into it.
The little boy watched her until sleepiness overcame him and he fell into a deep slumber next to her. He fell into a sleepless dream, but somehow, in the middle of the night, he felt so cold, as if he was sleeping on ice.
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“Lise, you need to eat this,” Sol came to Lise’s isolation room, holding a try for her. She had refused to eat since she was not allowed to see her daughter.
“Where is my daughter,” Lise spoke roughly with Sol. She wanted to see her daughter. “What did you do to her?”
Sol sighed, he sat down on the edge of her bed and looked at the porridge on the tray. “You don’t need to worry.”
Lise had been holding back her anger and frustration, thus when she asked about her daughter, she expected a clear answer, not just a repeat of empty words like; you don’t need to worry.
Her anger clouded her mind when she turned violent and slapped her hand down to the tray, knocking the porridge on the floor.
On the other hand, Sol didn’t even flinch when she did that, it was not the first time after all.
“Lise you need to calm down, or else I need to inject you again.” There was pain in his voice, he hated it when he had to do that to her, but he didn’t have any other choice. His hands were tied. He had been very lenient toward her.
The problem was; even he couldn’t have access to River. The little girl was under direct supervision of his father. Without his order, no way one could go to her isolation room.
They lost the lycan after all. The lycan boy that they had been studying since he was born and until now, no one could find him anywhere.
The lycan was their secret experiment, thus it was impossible for them to announce it for the public to know.
Therefore, they couldn’t afford to lose this precious creature. They needed to identify her, since she didn’t belong to any kind that they knew about.
“Where is my daughter!?” Lise gritted her teeth, she glared at Sol with hatred in her eyes.
“Lise, please calm down, or you will make things even worse,” Sol tried to soothe her, but Lise didn’t want to be touched by him.
“I want to see July,” she said sternly.
“I am sorry, but you can’t involve my sister in this.”
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