Chapter 28 - Past (part 3)

I looked at him where he was chained to his bed. As soon as Alpha left the house after ordering that no one would enter his room no matter how much he screams. But I don't care what orders he has given, Zale matters more.

"GO! DIE!" He yells and his voice comes out cracked, after so much shouting. 

I walked in further, I felt a tinge in my chest when he looked up at me with red puffy eyes which never ever dry, his whole body was filled with red and blue bruises. My eyes teared up and he blurted in front of me. 

"S-Soren," Once he finds it was me, he painfully lets out. 

"Yes," I shuffled in front of him and bent down to him, he was on the floor. His small body looks even smaller now. "Shhhh, don't yell anymore, okay." 

I said and he nodded, I let out a trusting smile and picked him up from the floor and he let me. I always come to him as soon as Alpha leaves the house. 

I placed him on the bed and he wailed from all the pain he was withstanding. He didn't let go of me and stayed close to me, leaning his tired body in my chest and I so cautiously swirled my arm around him. 

"Master Zale, relax he's gone alright," I told him and he sobs, how could he hurt and beat a three-year-old fragile like him? My blood boils from anger at that bastard of alpha and at myself for not being able to do anything to help him. 

I rub his tiny back, "Are you hungry?" I asked and he nodded. 

I slowly and softly made him sit up straight but he was still sobbing uncontrollably. I stand up and pick up the cold food from the table. Zale never eats food forcefully, he'd throw up otherwise, but they don't get a simple thing like this, if you treat him gently he's a soft boy.

I sat back near him and he didn't waste any second before he came to cling to my side. I put the spoon of rice near his lips and he slowly opens them and eats it. He was choking and sobbing throughout the whole time I fed him but he still took in every spoon I fed him. 

I wipe his mouth with my hand and give him some water. All while he just stared at me, I put the medicine on his wounds, as many wounds as I could cover, I could not bandage him because that could cause suspicion to the alpha. 

"Feeling better now?" I asked and he shook his head.

"Is it hurting so much?" I asked again and he still shakes his head.

I put my hand on his face and asked, "I can't be able to get it if you don't tell me?"

He tried to open his mouth and talk but got choked on his tears, "Can you n-not leave, just stay h-here with me,"

I immediately scooped him in my arms without wasting time and my tears couldn't stop this time. I hugged him and he got on my lap. 

"Zale I have to go," I told him the harsh truth and he cried harder and punched me right in my face which made me see stars.

"YOU TOO IS NO DIFFERENT FROM THEM, GET OUT. I DON'T WANT TO TALK TO YOU," he yelled and fought hard against my hold but I didn't let him go. He keeps protesting and punching me.

"Zale calm down, listen to me first," I tried to talk to him but he kept his scene up. He stopped when I put him on the bed and tried to leave the room.

"S-soren don't l-leave me, please!" he cried and I turned to him. 

"Will you listen?" I asked and he nodded. I walked back to him and he quickly grabbed my hand. "If you want to escape from this room, from getting beaten up and wanting to be with me, you need to do one thing," I said and he nodded without listening further. "You need to listen to your father and agree to go to school with me,"

Zale looked at me through tears, "But I don't want to go, if I go there, everyone will make fun of me and hurt me and then I'll also want to hurt them."

He cried and I assured him, "No, I'll be there with you, no one is going to hurt you with me and I'll not let you hurt anyone else." I said and again he listened.

"So will you go with me?" I questioned him.

"Yes," I smiled at him...

Soren jerked painfully and abruptly awakened. He heaved constantly, drenched in a cold sweat. It was so long that he had haunted down with all languishing memories of him and Zale.

His heart stings, and stretching his hand he wipes the stray tears. His thumping heartbeats crave to get up and run to Zale's side to hold him just like he used to back and hide him from every harm.