Chapter Eighty Seven

I had doubts... I hadn't believed my mother was capable; this had been the same woman I lived with all my life, but here I was in her apartment... And now I think maybe I was very wrong; maybe I just never knew who my mother truly was; she might have hidden that part so well from me.

“You were away for a few days. Where did you go?” I asked, my gaze burning into her.

“I do not have to report to you; I am your mother, and I have the right to be wherever I want to be.”

“A messenger was sent from the New Blood Pack, Thane had assembled soldiers to search for the offender. I can only help you if you talk to me,” I said to her.

I could see the fight in her eyes die away.

“I had been so close,” she says, and I shouldn't be surprised, yet I was because I hoped she wasn't involved; I hope it was just a mere coincidence, and maybe that had always been my problem... I hoped a lot.

“I don't believe you; how did you do all that?” I asked staring at her, she was strong for a woman in her late thir