The Love From Vengeance

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117 TAMPERED TRUTH

LUKE’S POV

With my phone pressed against my ears, I stood still in shock, right outside Andre’s mansion. My head was trying to process the voice I heard. I was still trying to grasp the situation. This could have been a dream, or maybe it was only reality. But me hearing my mother’s voice? Was I starting to go crazy, or what?

Not just that the person’s voice on the phone was the same as hers, the caller also addressed me as Pushki. It was a name that only my mother used to call me. Times of fun, times of happiness. Joyful times at the park, intense moments of laughter.

Their deaths had hit me hard, and they were gone from me for so many years. There was not a voice heard from any one of them, and I was in complete loneliness. Little me back then. I had to live my life with my grandfather, letting the memories wash all over me.

Now this voice had to come from nowhere. It was really crazy, and I could just hope this was a dream, an illusion, or something.

“Mom?” I vocalized, my mouth opening, as I was in awe of what was going on

here.

“Yes, Pushki?” The caller spoke in return, and my phone fell from my hands. I was still open–mouthed, trying to process the whole situation.

“Pick up

the phone, Pushki!”

“I glanced down at my phone after what I just heard. It was clear to me that this person was somewhere nearby, watching my every move at the moment. But was

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It really my mother talking, or had this person come to play mind games with me? No doubt, this was exceedingly absurd. It was about to make me go bananas.

“Push!” The caller said it loudly. I sat on my heels and slowly took my phone from the ground. “Now that’s a good boy.”

“Who are you?” I slowly asked. “You can’t be my mother. She’s dead! She died a long time ago.”

she left your life a long time ago.”

you mean

her husband and her son and decided to

a puzzled face. “What are you saying? I don’t get

make things clear

saying my mom got tired of me and my father?”

“Are you surprised?”

“It’s complete bullshit. There is no way my mom could ever get tired of us! She loved the both of

you? Oh, she was one badass.”

are you trying to say? Who the hell are you?

you, but you just

that? How in the world do you have knowledge of that name? You

still a little boy, and you’re still

I spoke underneath my breath. “How is this

you right now. How astonishing

dead

be talking to you right

grave almost every time, and I pay my respects to you and dad every single year. So, please, what’s going on? You both

happy that I’m

to me.

“Look, my son, I have never

now?” I couldn’t believe

ask yourself why your grandfather hated me

thought it was just

laughed. “A feeling indeed. Yeah, that’s nonsense. The great Sir Reynold had always known my true intentions. But your father was so dumb that he got blinded by my beauty. And

are you saying?” I asked in hushed

his wife because of his money. He and his father were on bad terms, all because of me. I convinced him to take his share out of the company. It wasn’t an easy

a minute. What the hell are you saying? What’s all this nonsense

only making things clear to you, just as

just nonsense!”

the truth,

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