Chapter 12

Life in the Drakos mansion has been great these past four months, Zoe wakes me up and helps me get dressed even if I tell I could do it myself, after that I go down to have breakfast with my family and then go up to the library and because of my frequent visits to the library everyone thinks I’m a genius to be able to read complicated words at the young age of five they even planned to get me a tutor.

I also have play dates with Adara and Stephen which is more like me looking after an actual child and an over grown child, both Adara and I have decided to make sure Stephen doesn’t feel lonely in other to avoid him becoming a tyrant in future, I also taught him to be more confident in himself and he seems to have taken it a little seriously because he not so long ago said he was going to marry Adara when they grow up, it was funny to see her all flustered and it didn’t seem too bad to hang out with these kids.

I have also been practicing swordsmanship and have been getting better by the day, father was surprised when I said I wanted to learn swordsmanship but he was also happy and said he would personally teach me, and he did as he promised every evening we would train together. Sometimes I would impress him when I did a technique correctly, not that it was anything knew to me but sometimes I like being praised for doing the smallest things.

I also spent more time with my siblings after they finish classes we all hang out together which made me able to now sense their presents but only from a short distance, and if one is busy one of them is busy I stay with the other. If I’m with Zander we do practice spars and he thought me how to use sword aura and I’ve almost beaten him a few times if not for my body size but I can still beat regular knights. While with Eleni we either have tea time or I help her practice for etiquette classes.

Right now I’m currently waiting for my new tutor who was recommended to my mother by her sister in law Lilian, a relative I haven’t met yet because she and her husband were visiting her parents. I’m waiting for her in my new study room with mother and Eleni, it was a good thing they called for a tutor because there are a few things I’m curious about.

A maid arrived with a woman not far behind her, she was a tall and strict looking young woman and from the way she looked at me I knew something was going to happen. “ welcome madam Joann I am Duchess Drakos and these are my children Eleni and Adonis” we both greeted madam Joann and she acknowledged it with a curt nod.

“So he is the famous young genius of the Drakos family, I hope to see how much you’ve studied all by yourself so if you don’t mind Duchess I would like to begin now” madam Joann asked my mother politely. “ Why of course madam we will take our leave now, come on Eleni let’s leave your brother alone” after that they both left me alone with madam Joann.

“ Where are we to start from madam because I have a lot of ques-“ I didn’t even finish my statement before she cut me off by saying “ oh shut up you little ingrate, how dare you speak to me like we’re of the same class” why are people in this world so annoying of we’re not in the same class because mine is higher than yours you bitch.

“ I can’t believe Lilian asked me to take care of this child, if it wasn’t for the fact that I wanted to see my Nikolas’s handsome face I wouldn’t come here and you little piece of trash do you know what you are hmm you are a good for nothing that doesn’t belong here so wake up from that dream of yours ok” she said all this while grabbing my hands tightly to the point that they became red.

Not only did this bitch come here to insult me but to also see a married man with three kids. I’m angry at these people who continuously say what they want without thinking of what the other person is going through, their all the same both then and now even when I’m trying to live peaceful people like her always come to find me and make me feel bad.

The rest of the time was spent with her constantly insulting and hitting me in places that are not easy to notice and the more I got hit the more my anger boils. I’m angry at her for hitting me, I’m angry at my so called aunt who sent her to come here for whatever reason and I’m angry at myself for expecting things from people who aren’t even my real family but I don’t care if their not mine, I’ll make sure to make whoever hurt me pay tenfold.

It was now lunch time and the maids brought in some tea for us to drink, one of the maids where about pour us some tea but I asked them to leave us and wait outside. They must have thought I might be too excited to learn more things and wanted them to leave so I can continue but that was not the case at all.

I took the teapot filled with hot water and poured it on my so called tutor’s face and since she wasn’t expecting it she screamed at the top of her lungs saying it was hot and that her face was melting. The maids outside rushed in some went to help the wailing bitch while one of the maids was checking if I was hurt.

“I’m sorry…….. I didn’t mean it ……it was an accident please I’m……sorry ” I shed a few crocodile tears in front of them. My mother and siblings so came in the room seeing me cry they came to my side and asked if I was ok, then when mother noticed madam Joann she asked the maids to take her to one of the guest rooms and asked Oliver to call the doctor.

Some few hours later when the doctor finished treating madam Joann he came to check on me in my room at this time I was pretending to have fallen asleep so I was hearing everything that was being said between my mother and the doctor.

“ How is he doctor?” she sounded worried and it made me feel bad for making her like that.

“He’s fine and I noticed their were a few buries on his body but I have treated them properly and they wouldn’t take long to heal since he has the Drakos blood in him” the doctor seems to be packing up his things ready to leave.

What do mean by buries he didn’t have any when we were with him this morning, unless he got them when he was with madam Joann and how is she by the way” mother asked the doctor while checking my body to see the buries.

“Her face is badly burnt and she might even need the high priest to help her if she wants her face to go back to how it once was” after saying this he and mother both left the room.

After they left I heard footsteps coming into the room by sensing their presence I could tell it was my siblings. “ I can’t believe all this happened while we were in the house and I don’t know what father would do when he gets back home” Eleni whisper to Zander trying to not disturb me.

“ I’m already angry as it is, when I saw Adonis crying the only thing I could think of was that I was going to destroy what ever made him like that and if I find out that madam Joann had some things to do with it I don’t know what I would do” by the sound of his voice I could tell he was still angry.

I feel bad for making everyone worry about me but I feel more sympatry for those who are trying to harm me and I must find out if this was also connected to the kidnapping and why this Lilian sent someone to do this to me because they seem not to know that their messing with a demon.