Chapter 111
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With a quiet trembling voice, she said it like she was in a trance, not being able to fathom what she was seeing right now. I glanced at April before returning my gaze back at the elderly woman in front of me with a bored expression, humming inwardly, 'She came earlier than I expected.'
I was so kind enough to enclose April's address to my mother-in-law; anonymous of course. Even though I regret not killing her back then and I still want to rip off her head for putting April through such harrowing experience. I had an inkling that she was the key to unbidden the shackles surrounding April's heart. The key that I needed to finally have April in my grasp. I did say after all that I was going to speed up my courting process no matter how underhanded the method that I am using was going to be.
Holding the handle between her folded hands April's mom opened the umbrella. Letting the canopy shield her from the drizzling rain as she took a few steps out of the awning. "April." She breathed the name out that she hadn't said for years while trudging closer to us.
When she finally stood few feet away from us her eyes went round from shock at the sight of her daughter's appearance. She reached out her hand in a haste wanting to inspect if the horrifying amount of blood was her daughter's. "Good lord what happened to you-!"
SLAP.
As if waking up from a long dream and realizing that this was reality, April smacked her mother's hand away. Her eyes brimming with fury as she glared at the woman who gave birth to her. "Why are you here? How did you even find me?"
The woman staggered back from the sudden slap, bringing her hand back; clutching it against her chest. Her eyes were about to release tears from her daughter's harsh rejection, but she forced it back.
"I-I wanted to check on-"
Before she could even finish April cut her off with her booming voice. "Check on me!? You wanted to check on me!?" She laughed dryly. "What do you really want? Money? I don't have money so go away."
Her mother shook her head. With her feeble voice that carried turbulence in it she said, "N-No. April please." She begged, wishing to be heard by her daughter. "There was never a day that I didn't regret what had-"
But again, April didn't let her mother say her peace. "Are you still with him?" She asked, her eyes narrowing at her.
"No." The woman's voice came out like a soft whisper as she added with her head hung low, "I ran away from him."
"Ha! Now that his punching back had ran away, he had to aim his anger at you. You couldn't handle his way of love anymore?" April snarled having the woman flinch under her cold stare.
Trying again the woman opened her mouth. "April I'm so-"
"I don't want to hear it." Turning her head to the side April refused to let her eyes linger any longer on the woman. She balled her hands, clutching them tightly against her sides, her nails almost breaking through the skin of her palms.
The volume of her voice kept increasing as she kept spilling the painful contents that were locked away in her heart. "You don't have the right to tell me you're sorry! You ran away? No matter how much I begged you to ran away with me to leave that man behind you didn't even lift a finger! With a smile you would brush my cries away telling me that it will get better. Every time he would beat me you would tell me that it was his way of showing love! If that's the case then why didn't you stay with him to receive the same kind of love!?"
With a downcast expression the mother didn't respond causing April to snap her raging eyes back at her demanding an answer. "Why!?"
"That's enough for today." Not wanting to see April getting more worked up and wanting her out of this showery weather as soon as possible I took it upon myself to interject myself in to the heated conversation- whisking her off the ground in one swoop. I started to waltz towards the door of the building complex carrying her in my arms.
April went wide-eyed and immediately started to squirm in my hold, uttering her words of protest against me. I quickly shut her up by giving her a warning glare. She instead folded her arms in front of her chest and started to mumble under her breath which made me chuckle.
As I was about to walk past the woman who calls herself April's mom, I felt a pair of hands on my arm making me stop mid-step. With an unbothered expression I glanced down at the anxious face of April's mom. "W-Who are you to take away my daughter like that!?"
Not wanting to waste my breath on her I only gazed at her coldly. Daunted by my stare she hesitantly let's go of me; her mouth opening and closing as she wants to say something but couldn't. Good, it doesn't seem like she has recognized me. I did torture her and her man few years ago, but I was like always in a disguise. I would be impressed if she had figured out my identity, not like it would matter. It would only give me a legible reason to free the earth of one more waste. Retracting my eyes from the old woman I proceeded to walk in to the building with April in my arms.
My heart was wrenching knowing the pain that the woman had caused and left in April's heart which made me almost regret letting that woman know her address. We will see what the outcome will be of this meeting and knowing me I will make sure that the outcome will be positive.
Standing in front of her door while keeping April steady with one arm I used the other one to pull out the replicate key that I had made out of my pocket, injecting it in to the keyhole. As I heard the clicking sound, I turned the doorknob, pushing the door open. I closed the door behind me as I waltzed inside the dark filled hallway. Raising my hand, I pressed the light switch that was located on the side of the wall. The lamp flickered a few times before illuminating the hallway.
I placed April carefully on the ground. She was shivering from the cold like a cat that fell in to the cold lake- its fur stuck to its skin as it somehow managed to crawl out of the lake. "Thank you." She whispered while her hand lingered on my forearm for support. She removed her hand and used it to stroke her arms in attempt to create some warmth. "You can leave now. I will see you tomorrow." She said through chattering teeth. It was laughable how she tried to dismiss me while looking like that.
"No." I deadpanned.
