My boy, I Love You

Chapter 50. The Clever Approach

The boy smiled at Black. While her little hand came closer to the duct tape that covered her mouth.

"Om, calm down, don't scream. Or I'll get in trouble." The little boy whispered.

He held out a bottle of mineral water and dripped it slowly in Black's mouth.

"Little boy, who are you? Are you an angel? Am I going to die?"

The little boy laughed softly. "Do I look like an angel?"

The little boy stuffed a biscuit into the man's mouth. "Om, how many times did you go to jail?"

Black laughed, but shortly afterwards he coughed. He was choked by a crack of biscuit stuck in his throat. "Mami said, if you're eating, you can't talk. Let me just talk. Okay?"

"Om has a dream of living in prison, huh? Come to think of it well too. Stay in prison, can eat for free, stay for free, sick can also be treated free." The boy returned to voice the things that were dancing in his brain.

Black choked back. This time he answered. "Know what you're about prison life. No one will live there."

The little boy sat on the floor, calmly stuffing the biscuits in his hand back into Black's mouth. "Hm... I think you're a liar, Om. You said that you didn't feel at home in prison, but you're still going to keep committing crimes, right? I think you really miss that place again."

"Hey boy, what exactly do you want," Black asked starting to look riled up. The little boy kept cramming the biscuits in his hand.

"Om shut up, listen to me. Later if the talk continues to choke on."

Black could not answer. The boy stuffed even more biscuits into his mouth.

"Om, that opportunity won't come repeatedly. Like now, I can give you food, but not necessarily tomorrow I can come to see you. An opportunity that Om should make the best use of."

"What do you mean, little boy?" black asked still didn't understand.

The little boy grabbed Black's ear. "I don't know if you're deaf or can't digest my words. But I pity you. How can you refuse a freedom, a peace and some money for your new life and instead intend to return to the holding cell."

"The biscuits are over. Maybe I won't come here again, because I don't want to get into trouble with my parents." The boy squeezed the packaging of the biscuits that had run out into Black's stomach. He poured mineral water back into the man's mouth. Black looks very thirsty.

"Well Om. I'll see Om when Om gets back to the jail cell for kidnapping my mother." The boy shuffled out of a small hole in the wall of the holding room.

"Hi, wait a boy!" exclaim Black. "I owe you."

Yeah, anyway, Leonard saved his stomach that afternoon.

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Samuel was still upset that his plan of persuading Black to move to his side, failed. He sat in front of the television screen while his finger pressed any button on the remote at random. His mind drifted without direction.

"He's stubborn and annoying" Samuel said. "Nobody has ever been able to control or obstruct it."

"Then what would you do if he still refused the offer you made?"

Samuel shook his head. "I haven't decided yet. But I can't possibly release him, because I'm sure it'll jeopardize our family's safety." The man sighed, as if regretting an act he had done in the past. "May he accept the offer, before I am forced to do what I do not want."

"You're gonna do what, Sam." Lia's tone of voice suddenly changed. That sentence sounded like a firm threat to Sam.

The tension of the atmosphere ended when Leonard opened the door of the house and greeted them with a bright smile. The clothes he was wearing were dirty and dusty.

"Oh my God, Leonard! Where have you been, why do your clothes look shabby?" ask Lia. Of course he was surprised. Leon doesn't like to play dirty on the outside, unless he's very intent on doing important things like an observation or finding something that catches his eye.

Lia took her son's hand into the bathroom. "Have a bath, after that mom wants to hear what adventure you went through today." The woman helped Leon pull his shirt up. The boy laughed amusedly, with both hands outstretched straight up.

Lia was preparing a change of clothes for her son, while her mind was drifting in an uncertain direction. Thinking about what her husband was going to do to the man in the backyard shed, about how to deal with the man if he refused his offer and also what exactly his son had just done.

"Mommy." The little boy's voice surprised his mother. His black hair was wet, dripping onto his face.

Lia helped dry her body, she smiled and began to pry for her son's adventure story.

"So, what did you just do, baby? What new adventure have you just had?"

"Leon was just playing in the backyard, Mom. There's a hole in a mysterious cabin. And inside there was a man lying with his hands and feet bound." The boy answered with comfort. He tugged his shirt one by one.

Lia bit her lips, she realized her little boy had found Black!

"Leon, then what did you do to that man?" ask Lia. He pressed his voice more. He must be able to control his emotions in front of his son.

"I gave him food and drink" he replied casually as he felt he had done the right thing.

Suddenly the door to his room opened. Samuel stood at the door with a tense face. "You shouldn't be playing there, Leon. What if you're fucked. Do you know who he is?"

Leon nodded with certainty. "He's the guy I saw abducting my mom in front of my school."

Samuel begins to realize that his son understands everything. The man went into his room and sat on his son's bed, right by his wife's side.

"Mommy daddy doesn't have to worry. He said that he owed me money after I gave him food, drinks and talked to him. I'm sure that guy won't trouble you anymore." Leon smoothed his wet hair with his tiny fingers.

"Daddy, but I forgot to keep my mouth shut when I got back home, just now." Leon says everything honestly.

Samuel jumped from his seat and immediately took the key to the warehouse. He wanted to make sure Black didn't run away and, when possible, accepted his offer.