POSSESSION: The Hidden Omega In All Alphas' Academy [BL]-Chapter 173: He spoke to me?

[FLASHBACK: 14 YEARS AGO, REMSWORTH MANSION]

[Trigger Warning: CHILD ABUSE]

"I-Isn’t that...Master Aiden’s cry?"

Even though every room inside the mansion was built soundproof, little Aiden’s heartwrenching cries from those burnt scars growing on his body were audible outside the room, making Barnes immediately recognize his voice! Unable to hide himself anymore, Barnes couldn’t stop his panicking steps from rushing inside the room, opening the door with a loud bang!

But the sight in front of him was beyond Barnes’s worst imagination.

"AHHH, I-IT HURTS! M-MY BODY IS BURNING...AAHHH...EEEKK!!" Cowering on the floor helplessly, with his clothes completely soaked from the splash of hot water, Aiden was deliberately crying for help! His exposed fair white side neck had morphed with gruesome dark scars, with droplets of blood trickling down his body as if his soft skin was ripping apart from those scars!

Witnessing his sudden arrival inside the room out of the blue, Lorelia didn’t take a step ahead to help her son and rather chose to glower at little Barnes with her murderous gaze. The head maid was still shivering from dread, crouching on the floor with a petrified gaze towards Aiden, as if she had lost her ability to stand still.

Even though the horrifying sight stunned Barnes badly from the inside, at that moment he didn’t have spare time to waste from panicking when Aiden was so brutally churned! Immediately Barnes ran towards the fridge at the corner of the room and grabbed out icepacks, before running swiftly back to his young master.

Suppressing his tears with a grit on his jaws, Barnes took off his shirt and wrapped those ice packs inside it, before he embraced Aiden tightly with his small shivering arms, to compress the ice on his scars.

"Aughh...I...I am...burning...Ahhh...B-Bunny...I...I am gonna die..." After those initial moments of enduring a brutal blazing sensation all over his small vulnerable body, finally sensing Barnes’s touch with his blurry tear-soaked eyes, Aiden whimpered, trying to hold onto his arm with his shivering fingertips, "S-Save me...B-Bunny...S-Save me...D-Don’t leave..."

"I-I am here with you, Master Aiden! I am not going anywhere! You won’t die...I won’t let anything happen to you..." Tears of grief and extreme remorse streamed down his small face, making Barnes hold Aiden’s trembling body tighter in his embrace as if he were trying to calm him down, at least a little.

He understood Aiden had gravely shaken up from the merciless attempt on him, but with his sharp senses, Barnes was quickly able to realize what had exactly happened inside the room.

Lifting his furious glare on Lorelia’s dark looming eyes gazing on them, Barnes shrieked painfully at the top of his lungs, "ARE YOU AN EVIL DEMON!? HOW? JUST HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO YOUR OWN SON!? MASTER AIDEN IS YOUR ONLY SON...AND YOU WANTED TO BURN HIM ALIVE!? HOW CAN YOU BE A MOTHER WITH SUCH A CRAZY EVIL MIND!? YOU’RE THE REASON NO ONE EVER FELT HAPPY AROUND YOU IN THIS MANSION! YOU ARE THE CURSE EXISTING HERE!"

Barnes was fuming with rage to watch his dear little Aiden groaning from that excruciating agony, but at that moment, he briefly lost his rational senses and blurted out the forbidden words for which he had already earned Lorelia’s vicious wrath directed solely towards him.

Even the head maid flinched at his blatant declaration and stared at Barnes with her eyes wide open in disbelief. By the time Barnes realized what he had done...Lorelia tossed a cruel sneer at him and howled the head butler there at that very moment, "RICK! Come here, right now!"

Just within seconds of her summon, the old head butler rushed over there to the room and watched Aiden’s scarred body wrapped in Barnes’s arms, which froze him from disbelief. Before the head butler could speak a word, Lorelia sneered at him, "Who’s this little twerp, Rick? Didn’t I have strictly mentioned before...none of the servants would be allowed to come near my room without my permission? Then how did this little rat sneak in here?"

Aiden’s breathing had grown a bit slower as if he was losing consciousness after battling such a terrible excruciating pain. As if his wrecked body felt solace in Barnes’s embrace, he clutched his grip on his hand, before passing out.

But holding his breath from fear, the head butler tossed a small glance at Barnes’s tearful face, realizing the big damage was already done. After losing his grandma when Barnes first came to the mansion to work there, Head Butler Rick had taken care of him like his own grandson and eventually became very fond of him.

So now, witnessing his beloved child Barnes’s life was on the line, he bowed his head before Lorelia and begged for her mercy with instant excuses, "I-I am sorry, M-Madam. It was my fault. I-I had ordered him to come here for an errand instead of me...but since he didn’t know the location, I gave him specific instructions. M-Maybe that’s why, he came here first o-out of curiosity...It’s truly my fault..."

"Haha...It’s nice to watch how you are pathetically lying to save this twerp from me, Rick." But Lorelia was smarter than everyone to see through his poor act, and even scowled at the old man, "For the punishment of lying to me, shall I rip off your tongue right now?"

"P-Please...have mercy, Madam—"

"Do you even know what this twerp has done?"

Interrupting the head butler’s mumble, Lorelia’s stoic voice strongly echoed inside the room, flinching both the maid and butler hard from fear. She tossed her vicious glare at Barnes’s pale frightened face and her sneer grew wider, "This little twerp accused me that I am the reason why my family is unhappy in this mansion! He told me I am the curse of this mansion...Haha...Can you imagine it?

"This little brat...how dare he spoke those words to me!? Does he not fear his life? Does that mean every other servant in this mansion has this alike thinking like him!?"