Chapter 142: Hating you then?
"Why did you go all silent? Come on, tell me. Who the hell are you...and how do you know me from my childhood!?"
Aiden’s cold rumble echoed inside the hallway walls, jolting Mr. Barnes to reality as he was momentarily lost in the memories of their past together almost 14 years ago. Narrowing his dark brown eyes, he stared silently at Aiden’s face for a while, seeming anxious by reaching a few steps closer to him as he demanded his answer.
However, Barnes exhaled a heavy sigh while contemplating in his mind, ’Master Aiden seems to have really changed a lot compared to the last time I saw him. If I remind him about our long-forgotten past now, I am afraid, what if he immediately tries chasing me out?
’It took me 14 long years to finally face him once again like this, but now watching him try to erase everyone’s existence who was involved with him in his childhood, I...don’t want that to happen to me as well... I don’t want Master Aiden to hate me...now that I have found him after so long...’
"If you have no intention of answering my question, then just back off from my way!"
Aiden’s sudden desperate grunt winced Barnes a little hard, as he saw Aiden trying to march past him towards Kylian’s room, tapping his boots louder on the cold floor. He seemed very agitated but at that point, Barnes knew if he let him leave like this...it was really the end.
"W-Wait!" Grabbing his arm from behind, Barnes took a deep breath in as he came up with a quick excuse.
"Actually...the past we shared wasn’t very worthy to be memorable, and I only knew you for a few months when you were small, Master Aiden. Yes, you have grown up to be such a magnificent man, and that’s why I was a bit taken aback when I saw you here again. I think the reason why you have also completely forgotten about me, was that we just used to exchange a few cordial greetings when I used to work for your father, for a short time."
"Is that true?" Holding a clear suspicion in his voice, Aiden narrowed his hazel eyes at him while his pitch deepened, "Just a moment ago you told me that I had promised you that I would remember you when I was small. Why would I promise something like that to someone who just worked temporarily for my Dad?"
Barnes gulped lowkey expecting that Aiden would catch a hint from his words. But faking a calm smile over his round face to hide the harrowing anxiety inside him, Barnes continued to give his blatant excuses.
"Oh, Master Aiden...you were just an elementary schooler at that time. It is very natural as a child to open our hearts up to anyone, even to a small worker like me who only saw you a few times in your mansion. You used to greet me cordially every time we met, and that’s how you had made that promise to me.