THIRTY FIVE

CHAPTER THIRTY FIVE

LILY

I am screaming at the top of my voice as I barge into the house looking for my mother.

“Come out mom. Where are you?”

I see her rush down the staircase to meet me. She looks so teary eyed as she appears and moves in to hug me.

“My daughter.”

I put my hands in front of us to create a wall in order to prevent the hug.

“Save it. I am not your daughter and you know it. How could you do this to me?”

She breaks down in tears as I continue talking.

“All these years you lied to me and for what? So you could play at being a mother? You allowed me suffer all this emotional stress I went through in the hands of your husband while you watched and could not defend me. What sort of a mother is that?”

“Lily.” she says to me.

The tears I see in her eyes are genuine and I can see that my words sting her. My emotions are not wavering either ways because as much as I her I also know that she had no right to do what she did.

I walked into this house with an anger that rivalled th