Revenge After Divorce by Black Rose

Chapter 294

Will she be alright?” The words escaped me before I could stop them, soft and laced with more worry than I cared to admit.

A smile crept across Luke’s lips, and it was that smile that made my insides churn. It was a proud smile, but there was something wrong with it. “Boy,” Luke sald, his voice most teasing, “your mother is one of the best. I’m more worried about those boys than I am about her. Trust e, in our world, your mother is a legend.”

A legend. A legend?

I couldn’t believe it. That was my mother he was talking about. The one who had raised me, the one who had been nothing but gentle, nothing but caring and protective. And here was Luke, as if he was discussing some stranger, as if it were all so damn casual. “A legend,” I repeated under my breath, the word tasting bitter in my mouth.

I glared at him, the urge to punch him right in the face rising inside me. “A legend?” I spat; my voice harsh. “I don’t give a damn about her being a legend in your world. My mother is out there, and she could be in real danger, and you’re smiling about it like it’s some kind of joke. What the hell is wrong with you?”

Luke just chuckled, unfazed by my anger. “You don’t get it do you?” He leaned back, crossing his arms. “Your mother chooses to be who she is. She’s always chosen that fe. That’s who she was meant to be. You may see her as fragile, but the world sees her differently.”

but the words caught in my throat. What could I say to that? Luke was right about one thing, my mother had always chosen this life, even if I hadn’t been around to see it. But that didn’t change the fact that I was terrified. Terrified that my mother, my fragile mother, was in the thick of a war

years ago.

the door. Luke’s words echoed in my mind, but they didn’t comfort me. They only made the pit in my

fix this.

dialled Marcus without thinking. The

calm, but there was a hint of

even know she left. I’m… I’m losing it here, Marcus. How

She’s always been this way. going to listen to anyone telling her what

exasperation. “She’s going to

She’s not

to