Chapter 27: Sparked Desire
Lionel Waldorf--heir to the Waldorf Family.
Leander smiled unconsciously as he thought about that weird friend of his who is the same age as him. He’s like...water—a free spirit who won’t be afraid to step out on a path not knowing where it will take him. He is ambitious too. And he tries his best to walk toward his goals.
That’s why Lionel is weird. He is both extremes at once. Or he presented himself as one. But he was resilient and adamant. Like a river that would find its way to the sea somehow, wherever he is, he will always walk toward his goal
Lionel never showed anyone his true heart, mysterious and free. Like water, he would slip away when someone tries to figure him out. It made more enemies for him. That, and his last name.
The Waldorf family controls the southern territories of the country. Lionel was not always the heir. He was born out of wedlock and because his mother feared for his life, he was raised as a girl in a faraway seaside town when he was young.
But unfortunately, Lionel’s existence was found out by his father. And since there were no other male heirs to the Waldorf family at that time, he was announced as the heir and was separated from his mother.
Separated from his mother—that itself is terrible for a twelve-year-old boy to go through. But the cruel thing was it was the sugarcoated version of what actually happened. The don of the Waldorf family (Lionel’s grandfather) killed Lionel’s birth mother and dragged Lionel to the city to live with the Waldorf family as the "heir".
Needless to say, that didn’t go well for Lionel. He does not like his family.
His father’s wife could never replace Lionel’s mother and there is only resentment between them. She gave birth to a son seven years ago. And that has complicated a lot of things in the Waldorf family.
Lionel’s life is more in danger now.
Maybe to conceal the cruelties he had to endure in his life, he cloaked himself with a mysterious personality that was fluid. But oddly, that’s why Leander admired him.
He didn’t understand him either. But liked him because he is the opposite of him. Lionel won’t get disturbed if things didn’t go his way. He’d find another way and keep on flowing, like a river.