Luke's Story (2)

William grimaced when Joanna made another intense schedule for Luke.

This was harsh even within the families in their inner circle.

Luke had a extremely busy schedule that even rivaled what he had to go through in elementary school.

It was common knowledge that schedules got more intense as you went up in grades.

"Are you going to look after Luke then?" Joanna asked him when William disagreed with her methods.

William was given even more work than Joanna. His parents were more harsh to him than Joanna as the heir of the Roselia family.

He barely had any time to eat with all the work he was given. Ever since he married Joanna, there was never a time where he slept more than three hours.

He worked seventeen hours per day with no breaks as he could not disappoint his parents.

William knew that he could not take care of Luke with his busy schedule.

William sighed as he agreed with Joanna.

Eventually, when Joanna was on vacation with her sister, William arranged even harsher schedules for Luke than Joanna had previously created due to his work that was doubled without Joanna.

It wasn't that he didn't love his own son. It was the same reason as Joanna, they just didn't have the time or energy to look after him.

It was much better with Lucius as the Suilett family helped with taking care of him.

* * *

William felt guilty as he briefly observed Luke's small face during dinner time.

William only spent time with Luke during mealtime.

One tradition or family rule in the Roselia family was that all family members were to eat their meals together in the house.

If it was up to William, he would eat his meals while working so that he could have an additional hour of sleep at night.

Luke's face was void of all emotion at a young age of three. His bright smiles have completely disappeared ever since Joanna entrusted Luke to all the hired tutors.

Luke had impeccable manners and elegance as he elegantly cut his steak into small pieces.

"How was your day today?" William brightly smiled to try to get rid of the expressionless emptiness on Luke's face.

"I studied math and english today," Luke coldly answered without even looking at William.

"What would you like for your birthday?" William tried to change the topic when the previous attempt failed.

"I would like to rest for a hour," Luke replied while picking up another fork to eat his salad.

'That was it?' William sadly thought.

When William was at Luke's age, he would ask for the newest virtual reality games from the second district or the old relics from the third district.

However, William had forgotten that in his arranged schedule for Luke, he had not given Luke a single moment where he could rest between his classes as he mostly copied what Joanna had created for Luke.

"How can you not give Luke any breaks?" William noticed in the schedule Joanna had created for Luke.

Joanna looked very irritated than normal today as her parents-in-law have given her more work these days.

"Luke won't have the time to miss us when he's busy," Joanna coldly replied.

William could not disagree as most young children could not handle being away from their parents for a long time at such as young age.

He ignored the guilt eating away his heart as he hoped that Luke wouldn't miss them too much.

William suddenly remembered this argument that occurred when Luke wasn't even two years old yet.

* * *

William coldly looked at the young girl in his house.

The young girl had created disruption in all the districts. She had reversed time, created natural disasters and distorted space all within few minutes.

It was like this girl would have unlimited amount of mana in the future. There was never a child that showed this much potential in the history books before.

She was a perfect fit for the Roselia family where they regarded having huge amounts of mana as the most important factor. This idea was especially put into motion for a person who would become engaged to the heir of the Roselia house.

The young girl didn't stop crying as she was separated from her parents earlier today.

"This is Luke's fiancee," William's father announced.

"She's from the third district," William's father didn't show signs of disgust, but rather looked pleased.

The elites of the first district never married or engaged with people from other districts. There was a hidden revolting notion of people who could not use mana and most people in the other districts did not possess even a ounce of mana.

William sighed as there would be no family taking turns to take care of Luke and the young toddler that was to be his partner.

He would receive no help like he was able to with Lucius.

He knew that Joanna would be furious about this engagement. Joanna was looking forward to the family that would be engaged with Luke so that she wouldn't have to spend more time with him when she was busy with never ending work.

Thankfully, Luke would enter school next month.

The young girl stopped crying as she started to tremble in fear instead from William's intimidating stare.

'Why couldn't this girl come from the first district?' William thought with great regret as he could not share his father's joy.