Chapter 373


    373-We Meet For The First Time


    Author''s POV:


    Years Ago:


    “Where are we going, daddy?" Enya asked her father as he took a car to go visit a graveyard.


    “We are going to pray for someone," ric said, his eyes on the road with big tears in them.


    “Why didn''t mommye with us?" she asked her father, holding her teddy bear tightly to her chest.


    “Mom-my doesn''t believe in praying for others. I mean, she was busy." ric had to shake his head


    and change his behavior before he said anything that would hurt Enya when he heard about how evil


    her mother had turned out to be.


    They entered the royal graveyard and went straight to Mrs. Shepard’s grave. However, they had to


    stand back and wait for the visitors to leave so that they could step ahead.


    Enya was standing next to her father, watching a young boy her age in arge jacket stare at the grave.


    “Who is he, daddy?" she asked in a whisper. ric had to bend down in order to hear her.


    “That is Aloha Thiago. He is the son of thedy in that grave," ric exined, and Enya made a pout.


    "Why is she lying in that hole? Do they not have a bed at home?


    We can give her a bed?" Enya innocently asked his father, who was bewildered to see his daughter


    lacking so much knowledge.


    It surprised him that Hazel didn''t even want to tell her daughter anything that would hurt her. But then


    she would go around hurting other kids.


    "This is where people stay after they die,” ric stated. He was trying to be honest with his daughter.


    Since Hazel was creating a different kind of an imaginary world in Enya’s world, he had decided to step


    up and teach her a few things that she might need for her future.


    "Die?" Enya frowned.


    “You see that boy? His mother died, and that means he can never see her again," ric exined,


    watching his daughter''s face to understand if she was growing up as cold as her mother or if she was


    still a human.


    “That''s so sad. Is that why he looks so upset?" The quick tears in Enya’s eyesforted ric. He


    realized his daughter was not yet ready to be like Hazel.


    He then realized the only reason Thiago''s mother wasn''t in the grave was that he had burned down the


    entire morgue. The feeling of guilt and disgust took over him once again.


    Thiago stared at the grave for a few minutes before his father told him to step aside. Thiago walked


    away alone toward the road.


    "Why don''t you stay here while your dad talks to that alpha over there?" ric asked Enya, who


    nodded to her father. Something flipped inside him when he saw Shepard. He felt it was his


    responsibility to right his and his wife''s wrongdoings.


    While he marched over to the alpha, Enya strolled after Thiago.


    "It is very tasty," J offered Thiago a candy, who shook his head as he didn''t feel charmed by


    anything this world has to offer anymore.


    "I will leave it here for you," J sighed, leaving the candy on the bo of the car and walking away


    to find her father. They havee here to pray for Mrs. Shepard.


    "This candy looks good," Enyamented from behind Thiago. He turned around and stared at her


    without any emotion on his lips.


    "It doesn''t concern me,” Thiago said in a mild tone.


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    “You don''t want to eat it?" she asked, and when Thiago shook his head, Enya requested, "Can I eat it


    then?"


    Thiago stared at her once more and then at the candy. Lifting the candy in his hand and pulling it out,


    he offered her the candy.


    “You can have it," he said, and Enya jumped up and down happily to grab the candy. He watched her


    unwrap the candy and shove it into her mouth instantly.


    “You never had candy before?" Thiago inquired after noticing how star-struck she appeared while


    eating candy.


    “No! mommy says it is a bad thing," she pouted sadly.


    “You have a mom?" Thiago''s eyes shone with happiness when hearing about the word mother.’


    “Everybody has a mother," Enya answered, still sucking the candy and hugging her teddy.


    “I don''t anymore," Thiago said, lowering his face as tears fought to form in his eyes.


    “Oh! I know what happened,” she remembered what her father told her, “You can call my mom your


    mommy." She didn’t know what else to say, so she made him an offer, but he steadily shook his head.


    “No! It is okay. I miss my own mom," he hugged himself at the memory of his mother, "she used to give


    me candies. Only when I did something good. She always said that people who do good get good


    things in return. And then she stopped giving me candy one day," he said, recalling the good ol''days.


    "Why? Why did she stop?" Enya asked, taking a lot of interest in what that grey-eyed boy had to tell


    her. She couldn''t help but notice the color simrities between their eyes.


    “She said there will be times when I have to do good without thinking about what I am getting in return,"


    he said with a smile on his lips. Talking about his mother was his favorite topic.


    “And you didn''t cry?" Enya asked, and Thiago smiled a little at her question.


    “No! That thought helped me a lot. It lifted a lot of pressure from my shoulders. Whenever I used to do


    any good deed, I couldn''t stop thinking about what candy I would get today. The thought was so


    intense that it began to bother me. The day I realized I don''t need to do good to get something, the


    pressure lifted from my shoulders. I was no longer worried about what candy I will be getting today,"


    Thiago said with a bright smile on his lips.


    “Wow! mom was such a nice person," he thought as a big tear ran down his eyes when he tried to think


    more about his time with his mother, but it wasn''t long before he began to notice some memories were


    forgotten now.