CHAPTER 137

AEGEN

I didn’t mean it like that, the Goddess knows I didn’t. I glared at my mother. “You just had to come here and talk about this damn funeral.” She looked shocked by my outburst. She shouldn’t be, she asked for it.

“Aegen…” I raised my hand and stopped her from talking. Her mouth hung open not believing I just did that. I didn’t want to, but she was forcing my hand. “I told you I didn’t want to go to this funeral, but you keep pushing and pushing. I am not a child anymore mother.”

I laughed mockingly. “What am I saying? Even when I was a child all you knew how to do best was to reprimand me just like father did. Nothing I ever did was good enough for any of you.”

Mother looked sad when I compared her to my father. It was the truth I never wanted her to hear. I endured everything growing up and keeping everything to myself.

“You were more of a mother to them than you were with me, your own son! You never asked how my day was when I came back home with bruises. All you did was tend t