Crossing the Border (Rania) novel Chapter 312

Chapter 312

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Lucian had given up, he knew the chance for him to find his mother was close to none. He knew it from the beginning, but there was some part of him that wanted to keep going.

Deep in his heart, he wanted to stay here, until he could find her. At least, until he could find the answer about her whereabouts; whether she was alive or dead. It didn’t matter. He only wanted some news.

Lucian was thinking to quit. He was thinking to beg the king to let him stay here, to take care of this newly conquest territory. It crossed his mind and he knew it wouldn’t be easy.

And then Lucian thought about the queen, if he asked her… the chance would be higher. The queen was a compassionate person, she would understand.

And when Lucian was thinking about all of those things, he stumbled to a small hut at the shore of the sea. There was a young boy, seeking shell on the sand. He was probably the age of twelve or even younger, since he looked so small and lanky.

Lucian walked toward him and greeted him out of curiosity. “Are you looking for shell?”

The boy lifted his head and looked at him, which made Lucian startled a bit. “Yes,” he replied curtly.

Lucian was stunned for a brief moment because he was familiar with those eyes, but it could be only in his mind because he had been thinking about it a whole day, so it corrupted the way he saw things.

“Can you move, please, I want to dig the spot where you are standing,” the young boy said politely.

“Oh, sorry…” Lucian immediately moved. He knew what he was doing, because this was what he had done too when he was little.

His mother taught him how to find the shell so they could sell them, though it didn’t bring much, but at least they could have hard bread.

Lucian was staring at the boy, reminiscing the past when suddenly the boy straightened his back and looked at him weirdly.

“You are not from here, aren’t you?” His shoulders tensed. “Are you warrior from Barlukan kingdom?”

Lucian paused for a second before he admitted it. “Yes, I am.”

And after that admission, the body immediately knelt down in front of Lucian. “I am sorry, sir, please forgive my rudeness.”

This scene surprised Lucian, because he didn’t expect this. “What do you mean? Get up.” Lucian urged him to stand up, but the boy lowered his head even more, his skinny body was shaking.

“I am sorry,” the boy said, shivering.

Lucian felt his heart was crushed, because once upon a time, he was this boy, begging for forgiveness for something that he didn’t even know was wrong.

The only big different here was; Lucian wouldn’t kick this boy until he was black and blue.

“What’s your name?” Lucian asked him, he patted his shoulder, because he thought there was no point of telling him that he was not someone that he should be afraid of.

“I am… Lucas,” he said in a small voice.

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“Okay, Lucas, where do you live?” Lucian could feel his body was trembling even more. Well, he had asked the wrong question. “No, Lucas. I will not hurt you. Lift your head. The Aspen warrior is not the same like the Barlukan, we are not here to hurt you. It is the opposite.”

Lucas gathered his courage and lifted his head to look at Lucian. “But… your warrior… your warriors conquer the kingdom.”

“Yes, that’s true, but we come to break the slavery. We are not here to torture you, as long as you don’t fight us. Will you fight against us?”

Lucas immediately shook his head. “No, of course, not, sir.”

“Good.” Lucian patted his shoulder. “We are here to make this place to be a better place, not to destroy it, or even to slave you all.”

Lucian didn’t seem convinced, but he dared to look at Lucian with his innocent eyes.

At that time, Lucian remembered something. “Do you want this? Are you hungry?” Lucian had a beef wrap in his jacket pocket, the food that supposed to be his lunch, but he had no appetite to eat it.

Seeing that, Lucas’s eyes lit up, but he was still scared, he didn’t immediately take it from Lucian’s hand.

“Here, take it. Don’t you want it?” Lucian handed the beef wrap to his hand and watched how the young boy looked at it with interest, but he didn’t eat it immediately.

“Thank you, sir,” he said with voice full of gratitude. “But, can I leave now? Is this really for me?”

“Yes, of course.” Lucian nodded. “Are you going back home? Is that your home?” Lucian pointed his finger at the small hut at the beach.

“Hm. Yes.” Lucas was a little bit hesitant to answer that. He was still skeptical with Lucian.

“Who are you living with?” Lucian asked again. There was something about this young boy that bothered him.

“With… with my mother…” He replied, became even more hesitant.

“Only with your mother?” Lucian felt bad. This boy and the mother must be the lowest rank in this pack as they didn’t even live among the other people.

“Yes.” Lucas nodded.

“Okay.” Lucian then looked at the beef wrap in his hand. “Will you give it to your mother?”

Lucas looked embarrassed when he nodded. “I am not hungry,” he mumbled.

Of course, Lucian knew it was a lie. The young boy wanted his mother to taste a good food and he was good enough to say that he was not hungry.

“Okay, you can leave.”

“Thank you,” Lucas said gratefully.

Lucian watched Lucas half running towards his hut, but he glanced over his shoulder a few times at Lucian. He bowed his head politely before he entered his small hut and disappeared behind it.

No wonder his body was so small. He must be hungry countless times without having anything to cat.

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With that thought, Lucian walked away, he returned to the car. Cam and the other sighed in relief when they saw him..

“Let’s go back now, it is only three more hours before we have to leave and continue the travel” Ray patted Lucian’s shoulder.

However, Lucian had different idea.

“Drive to the nearest beef wrap stall,” Lucian said lightly, as he entered the car.

“What?” Ray furrowed his brows, he wiped his face roughly to get rid of his sleepiness. “Where do you want to go?”

“Beef wrap stall.”

“Shouldn’t we go back now?” Cam asked. The other four people were already sleeping, they seemed too tired to follow this

conversation.

“No. I want to go to the beef wrap stall.”

“Are you hungry?” Ray frown. If you are that hungry we can find another store.

“No,” Lucian growled this time, he became impatient. He got out of the car and went to circle it to the other side of the door and opened it. “Get out.”

“Hey, hey, it’s okay. I will drive you.” Ray raised both of his hands, but Lucian dragged him out, as he was going to drive the

car.

Having no other choice, Ray could only walk to the other side of the car and sit next to Lucian. The engined was started and Lucian took them to the place that he wanted.

Thankfully, the stall was not too far and he could reach there within less than fifteen minutes.

“Good I am hungry. I want one too.” Ray stretched out his body.

Lucian bought ten in total and Ray looked at him with confusion. “Are you that hungry?”

However, Lucian didn’t answer that, instead he drove back to the beach. He took four beef wraps and then got off the car again.

“Hey, where are you going? Why we are here again?” Ray was confused, but Lucian warned him not to follow him.

“Stay in the car, I will be right back,” he said sternly and none of them could defy his order.

“Do you know what’s going on?” Ray looked at Cam.

“No.” Cam shook his head, he was also confused.

“Should we go down and check on him? Why would he need to bring a lot of food with him?”

Cam shook his head. “If you want to go and follow him, go ahead, I will stay. I don’t want to be the receiving end of Lucian’s wrath. He can be very scary when he is pissed.”

Hearing that, Ray chose to stay. They were well aware they didn’t want to mess with Lucian, especially when he was being emotional like this.

But, Ray and Cam were curious on what Lucian was doing right now.

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Currenly, Lucian was heading back to the hut near the sea, he knocked on the door with four beef wrap in his hand, he thought it would be better to bring them more food, but it was already in the middle of the night, almost all the stores had closed and they were far away from here.

Therefore, this was the best he could do.

“Lucas, are you there?” Lucian knocked again. He only left less than an hour, they were not sleeping already, right?

And from inside, Lucian heard the sound of the lock before the door was screeching, someone opened it.

But this time, it was not Lucas, it was an old woman in her late forty, who looked so tired and weak.

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