Chapter 390: Griffin’s Past 1
"Mother!" Young 18 years old Griffin pushed the door open and walked into their house only to find she was lying on the floor after being thrashed by the loan sharks. Her both siblings a younger sister and brother of 14 and 12 respectively were crying with their bodies trembling.
Griffin rushed to his mother’s side and held her up. "What happened to her?" Griffin asked his both siblings. There was a bruise on her forehead and also near the chin. Carrying her up his mother on his back, Griffin told his siblings to stay home and not come out.
He took his mother to the nearest local physician’s house for the treatment.
The physician was a kind man who used to treat freely those who couldn’t afford the treatment. "Boy, your mother is quite weak. It seems she’s not eating much. I understand you don’t have enough money, but if she keeps eating less than her body needs, she may fell sick. Rest I’ve tended her wounds. She must wake up in a few hours," the kind physician told Griffin before walking away.
Griffin lowered his eyes and took out the coins he had earned today. They weren’t enough for them to have their meals properly for more than two days. There was still some debts on his head which he needed to clear.
Sighing, Griffin stuffed the coins into his pocket and carried his mother back to their home. His both siblings were happy to see their elder brother and asked about their mother’s condition.
"Mother will be fine soon. The physician said that she would wake up in a few hours," Griffin told them, resting his hands above their heads. "Come, I will cook for both of you," Griffin said, "let the mother rest." He took both of them out with him to the kitchen.
’Will I able to give them a good life? It’s all because of my evil father. He has made our lives hell,’ he thought while filling two bowls of rice for his both siblings.
"Brother, I should work too. At this rate, we will starve to death," said the youngest one, Roger.
"I can also work as a maid in a house, Brother. Please let us work. You work the entire day and don’t even take a proper sleep," said his sister, Nora.
"You two are young. Just focus on the studies. What I couldn’t do, you both should do. Don’t worry about brother. He will get a good paying job soon," Griffin told both of them and asked them to eat more.