" You're unfair, I had nothing to do with it. Perhaps it is you who failed to deserve his love and dump your faults on others.”
" Shut up, brat, don't say another single word or I'll fix you for the holidays.”
" You said before that the king didn't love your mother and now you want to accuse my mother who has no faults ...”
"Shut up," he repeated through his teeth.
" I can't let you say that ...”
He couldn't finish.
His brother hit him with a sudden punch, knocking him to the ground. The child defended himself by kicking him like a small frightened mule. The other beat him again and, if Alfredo who at that moment entered by chance had not intervened, he would have beat him really badly.
The king was made aware of the fact that same evening (after all, the boy's black eyes could not
