Chapter 18

They both separated sixteen years ago , When I was just a baby...

I never saw my mom and dad together.. I grew up in my father's palace. I think my stepmother is my mother.. But it seems that my father did not want me to think that long... When I turned six, my father only told me the truth of the matter and showed me the real picture of my mother, and since he told me that I left calling her my mother .. Why not and she was not treating me as her son? I used to receive insults and reprimands, and when my father came, she was a little kind.. But the matter did not last long.. The truth was revealed to him, but it did not appear. Because at that time I knew that my father did not care even if I was beaten and insulted in front of him.. She used to hit me and I look at him with pain, but he was drinking coffee and reading newspapers during this, which hurt me a lot.. I saw their pampering and tenderness for Irene, especially Eric, but nothing reached me.. And that snake planted its poison on her two children, so I did not play with them, and they hated me and cursed me too.. Eric was the worst and most indicative... He was beating too hard.. I wasn't defending myself , Because if I defended, I would get hit by her.. and I couldn't handle this when I was young ............ On a new sunny morning , The child Carl ran towards the dining table where the family was sitting and eating their breakfast. He grabbed his father's shirt and said innocently to an eight-year-old boy, "Dad! I 'll see my mom today, right!" The snake looked at him angrily, and the father pulled his sleeve. "Don't mention her biography here!" They said it together angrily. Every day he hoped to see his mother, he was sure she wanted him but she could do nothing! He ran from them up the stairs to his room and threw myself on his bed almost crying It didn't last long until Eric entered with his malice even though he was only six... Carl stood and looked at Eric while Eric ran towards him and pushed him hard on the table and hit her and fell to the ground.. "Why did you hit me again?" He raised his head and looked at Eric

Eren's voice was calling from afar, Eric, who did not answer him, and now he was enjoying doing what his mother liked him to do! Irene entered. "Oh Eric you're here! I've been looking for you!" He ran towards them and looked at them silently, lowered his hands and did not comment while looking at Eric, he did not stop beating.. "Eric my brother is enough!" He said as he pulled Eric nervously, looking at Carl in pain. Eric looks at Erin waiting for him to talk. "The teacher is coming, we have to go!" Carl stopped quickly. "You are not registered as a student with him," Eric said, then raised his head up high "I'm sorry, Brother Carl, but my dad just asked me to call Eric," Erin tensed as he said. "And you didn't apologize to him!! It's nothing here!" He was angry when he said it. Irene did not comment and just ran outside. "I'll wait in the library. Come over there, Eric." "Hey, wait for me!" He felt steps coming, began to catch his breath, and raised his head to look at his father's rigid features. Silence looked at him and did not say anything. He came close to him and grabbed his face feeling a clear bruise with his finger. "Who caused it?" Carl was afraid and his body started to shiver, because if he told him he would receive punishment later.. "We'll go out" Carl 's eyes widened, he was shocked and amazed at this and happy at the same time and.. he too was afraid of this, because this is not the habit of his father. His father stood and walked outside while one of the maids entered.. "I will prepare you, young master." Carl was still in shock , Finally, he looks at himself in the mirror happily.. He was dressed in elegant clothes, his hair was neat and the bruises had been removed by the maid with a blemish remover.. Because of this happy moment, Carl left nothing but talked about him.. He was babbling and his father was silent until the car stopped in front of a house.. "Dad, where are we?" Carl uttered a question as he looked at his father and then at that house.. "I'm not going down, go alone," he said coldly, while Carl swallowed his saliva and went down while watching his father's looks telling him to do so.. Carl rang the bell, and a man opened it and ordered him to enter. Carl swallowed his saliva and turned his eyes out, but his father was not looking at them. "Don't be afraid, baby Carl, get in." The man smiled at him as Carl stepped inside and looked at the silhouette of a woman coming from an open room knitting something mergingly, and a four-year-old watching happily. Carl 's eyes watered and his steps increased towards her, so the other turned when she felt it, so she left what was in her hand and went towards him for a long hug, in which their gasps rose. "Mama, why are you crying?" The child said sadly while holding his mother's shirt while she did not leave Carl for a moment.. The man came close to him and grabbed his shoulder. "My little Matthew, this kid is called Carl. He's your mother's son, your brother. Do you understand that?" He said smiling sweetly to his little one while touching his soft cheek with his forefinger And when the mother and her child calmed down, she sat him on her lap, and he started talking about how much he longed for her, since he knew about her, and he was talking happily. The little boy took his time at this first meeting of his mother's family until his mood was disturbed by his stepfather's sentence when he said, "Your father came to pick you up, Carl." "Why?! I want to stay longer!" Carl protested as he fiddled with his hair. "Come and visit us again, don't make your father wait too long." He said goodbye to his mother and Matthew in arms, and then left, feeling goodbye, that he wanted to be with his mother forever. He rode next to his father and suddenly kissed his father's cheek with a quick movement that made the other surprised by this. Carl did this again. He straightened his seat and almost tied the belt, but he fell back and hugged his father tightly "Oh my God Carl enough I want to drive!" He said it and put his left hand on his head, pulling his hair with his helplessness Carl laughed happily and then sat down and fastened his belt.

We arrived in front of the palace, and my father stopped there , He commanded me to go down on my own, for he had some business, though my father did not defend me, yet I feel safe when he was around, and he set off on my way, and as I took my steps into the palace garden , If you had a job... why didn't you leave me a little more with my mother...? C

arl arrived at the gate of the main hall of the palace, slowly opening it, intending to avoid his stepmother and two noisy brothers. He began to walk beside the wall, looking at the stairs, and at last he arrived, and began to slowly ascend as he turned around , And.. no way, here she is standing at the top of the stairs.. He swallowed his saliva while looking at her, and towards that mouse holding her hand. "I'm back," Carl said nervously "I didn't wish you would come back" was her harsh response Carl turned and ran down the stairs as she widened her eyes at his reaction. Eric left the little mouse, as Carl called it in his mind, to run after him. "Eric, don't run like that you'll fall!" Carl reached a staircase that leads to the basement of the palace, and Eric follows him. Eric grabbed Carl's hand while they were on the stairs, the other pulling him, and the two fell inside, the dark cellar door shut behind them except for a dim light in one of its corners. Eric sat up with difficulty holding his leg, which was hurt, while Carl sat down immediately and turned to Eric.. "I went out with my dad, where have you been!?" Eric said it right away "I went to see my mother," he said with great enthusiasm, then approached Eric to express his happiness to play with her and his younger brother, and the kindness of his stepfather, forgetting that this is the one who always beats and curses him. Eric pounced on him with an angry face as he struck Carl's chest. "You didn't hit me now!?" surprised "I went out with my dad even though it never happened to me or Erin! He's always busy with this. He went out with you! And for whom!? My mother's enemy!" Eric's eyes watered as he continued to punch "Are you blind? More focus?" Carl said surprised Eric ran upstairs and closed the door behind him. "Wait what are you doing!!" Carl said as he ran up the stairs and then tried to open the door when he heard the locks coming out..

"You madman, are you going to kill me Eric!? Hey Eric, do you hear me!?" Carl was silent and heard footsteps running away from the door, so Carl started hitting hard and shouting his name to come and free him.. "Fuck the snake gave him many lessons." He sat weary while leaning against the door. His eyes soon started to water, and he closed his limbs silently, and slept in this position.. On the morning of the second day, the maid in charge of Carl ran downstairs. "Mr. Smith! Young Master Carl is not in his room!" Thomas Smith was standing in front of the palace gate, intending to go out, when the maid came to him, panting. "The bed is made, he hasn't been there since yesterday!!" His expression did not change when he heard this, He turned to his wife and saw her curling her nails, sitting on the chair without caring. He turned to Eric and saw him playing with an educational game. Finally, he turned to Erin to see him grabbing a book, and then turned his eyes back to the maid. "What do you command, sir? There is no trace of him in the places he goes!" "It does not matter if he will return , there is no place for him but this palace." He wanted to get out while the maid looked sad.. "He hadn't run away before..." He stopped here as if he was sure from the maid's sentence that Carl was somewhere inside the palace.. "Then you worked searching every corner here." He said, then left without comment. The servants started looking for Carl while Eren raised his eyes to Eric, approached him and Danny played with him quietly.. "Where is my brother Carl?" Eren whispered so that only Eric could hear him. "In the basement," Eric replied in a whisper, while Irene's eyes widened slightly. "I locked him there?" Eric nodded in agreement, while Irene was silent and did not respond. The palace remained in disarray , The mother went into her wing without caring, and Eric followed her, leaving Eren behind. Eren sighed and then ran into the basement. He quickly opened the locks and looked around as if he didn't want anyone to see him. "Eric, are you back?" Carl's voice was low. Erin opened the door, grabbed Carl by the hand, and quickly pulled him out, then closed the door again.