If he hadn't accidentally run into him by the pond in the garden, squatting there with a short dagger, writing the character "endure" over and over on the ground, he would almost have been fooled.
He still remembered that when Maxwell Saxon wrote that character again and again, the expression on his face was so cold and sinister it would make even an adult feel afraid. Those eyes were not what a normal kid of a bit over ten should have.
It was because of this that on the very first day Maxwell Saxon entered the Saxon Family, he knew Maxwell was putting on an act.
Sure enough, in the days that followed, Maxwell Saxon kept up a façade of being timid yet very sensible. Because he seemed timid, none of the people who interacted with him would feel too much hostility toward him.
