Blood and Fire by Willow Rose

Author:Willow Rose [Rose, Willow]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BUOY MEDIA
Published: 2018-02-21T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Five

They drank coffee in silence. It wasn't very good coffee, but Melanie's mother had never been very good at making anything—let alone coffee. Melanie could tell that her mother was craving a drink, desperately. She kept staring at the empty bottles in front of her and Melanie saw a longing in her eyes that she knew a little too well.

"So, how is Max?" she asked, not knowing whether they were together or not.

"He left," she said.

"Oh."

Silence again.

"Don't you want to know where I was?" Melanie asked.

Not that she actually wanted to tell her mother since she didn't want to rat out her new friends and she couldn't really tell her mother the entire story. She would definitely not believe her and would think she had gone mad. But she wanted her mother to ask, at least. She wanted her to show some interest, show her that she had been worried about her daughter like a normal mother would be.

Their eyes met. Her mother's looked beyond tired. "I’m not sure I want to know."

"Why not?" Melanie asked, puzzled.

Her mother licked her lips. The coffee had turned them black and dry. "I figured you had gotten into bad company. And then they started to talk about…they said you killed someone, Melanie."

Melanie stared at the small woman next to her. "Who? Who said that?"

"The police. They were here. Said you killed a pastor at some church in town. A pastor, Melanie. Have you no shame?"

"But…but…"

"Tell me it wasn't you, Mel. Tell me they were wrong," she said, her eyes pleading.

Melanie exhaled.

"But you can't, can you?" her mother said with a deep sigh. "I should have known, growing up here…that something like this might happen. You got in with the wrong crowd, didn't you? You got yourself into trouble and now you're here because you think I can help you out."

Melanie shook her head. "No. No, I came because…because…"

"Because you had nowhere else to go. I don't have any money if that’s why you're here."

"No...that's not why. Because I missed you. I wanted to come home."

Her mother shook her head. She caressed her daughter's cheek. "You used to be such a cute girl. I was so proud of you."

"I’m still the same, Mom. I’m still her," Melanie said, eyes filling up. "I’m still the same."

Her mother looked at her face, examining her, then shook her head. "No. This is not my daughter. This is not her."

"But…"

Her mother handed her a business card. Melanie looked at it. Ben Smith, it said. Police officer. Melanie looked up.

"I'm sorry," her mother said and shook her head as the sound of a motorcycle approaching drowned out everything else. It stopped right outside their house and Melanie heard the boots as they approached the door. It was opened and in came a tall brusque man, holding a gun between his hands, pointing it at her. The shot still echoed in the street long after Melanie had sunk to the floor.

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