The Puppeteer Part 3

The Puppeteer - His love towards the boy

The situation in the mall was pretty busy as many people are preparing for winter, William found himself needed to grab extra baby clothes for winter as well. It has been so long since the last time he bought winter clothes for anyone besides him. That's right, he never bought any winter clothes for Zylen. Each winter Zylen was left trembling in the cold basement, sneezing many times. He even force  him to wash the plates and clean the toilet  without anything to warm him up. To think how he could ever send Zylen out to buy liquor on winter without many fabrics on got him.. it was surely cruel to survive the weather that way, he even remember how he throw the boy into the chimney once .. it was insane, he should have never done that..

How did Zylen still have clothes ? It was basically some old clothes he never use anymore, something Zylen pick up from thrashes on his own when he went out for some errands. And something people would throw because they don't need it anymore. Mostly his regular customers never mind to come back and throw the clothes to him after they are done making their way with him. The boy at that time could only cry as he lay down on the thin mattress that could felt the hardness and the coldness of the cement floor.

Even miss J did bring something good for Zylen, she came back a day after he served her, she told William how she saw the boy was trembling hard in cold. But William didn't pass the gift to Zylen. Instead, he sold it because it was freshly bought.

So he basically never cares about his needs. Not even food, not even clothes. He never took him out and he believes Fred and Libby would probably never took him out as well.

Even the baby in his arm right now could now stop looking around, this must be the first time the young soul has watch the sky, watch other people .. the outside world..

He wonder how Zylen would react if he took him out with them. If Zylen is with them, will he smile? Will he have a family moment with him?

Even the baby was so loved by the people around. Many people wave at the baby and speak of how cute the small angel is.. If Zylen is around will those people think about him the same?

He know how good looking Zylen is.. but he is damaged so badly.. he remember how insecure Zylen was with his own face, William does not need to tell him to hide his face because Zylen will do it by himself, ashamed of himself because he looks like a monster.

There was once William found him crying at the toilet floor, sitting there with his face pressed down into both of his palm. He know Zylen cried after he saw his own face in the mirror. William never hesitate to harm him brutally, never even think about to hit him where it could not be seen easily. He does it everywhere he wanted, even satisfied everytime he could see it, satisfied when others could see how much of a slave he is and how much power William had over him.

He snapped out from his mind when he drop a single can to the floor, he sigh and pick it up and put it back on display shelf. He heard the baby squek and laugh, he turn around to see another baby girl in the stroller playing with the toy hanging from the stroller. Then the parents smile to him, the wife spoke "My such a cute angel, how old is he?"

To be honest William had no idea "six months"

"So adorable, our baby girl is eight months old, your baby have so many hairs, it's adorable, what did you use to get that many hairs? Our little one is still bald hehe" she chuckled at the end of her words, her husband was smiling as well

"Nothing I suppose, he got it from his father I guess"

"Oh you're not his father? Excuse me, I'm sorry I thought you are his father. You adopted him?" She asked again, eyes a bit wide and one of her hand almost pressed on her lips"