The Bite (Edited)

*Criminal

"Hurry!" She said, dragging us away. Then she pressed the black trigger and the building exploded, debris flying everywhere.

"MOM! What is wrong with you?!" I screamed. She turned to me.

"I just saved you a lot of work. That trigger detonated all the bombs I planted in every building of the Executors. I know about the Bite and everything," she said. Her face was telling me that I should be thanking her but I couldn't.

"Mom, you just killed so many people!" I said. "That's not how we do things!"

"But that's how I do things." She sighed. "I almost forgot the thrill of making things explode."

"You're saying you've don't this before? Are you a terrorist?!"

"Terrorist? No. Done this before? Yes. I've done it many times. I'm a mercenary. That's how I managed to maintain our family even with a low paying job."

"How many times have you done this?"

"Billions. Look, I know you're mad. But I only did this for you." She put her hand on my shoulder.

I looked at her. "Does you being a mercenary have to do with dad's death?"

She looked right back at me, her eyes filled with pain, telling me the answer.

I looked at the sky. "Tell me what exactly happened. Every single detail."

"Let's go home first, okay?" She said.

"No, tell me right here, right now!" My hands were curled into fists and I was beyond angry.

She sighed. "I was a mercenary since I was sixteen years old and it was my way of life. There already had been the organization of the Executors even before then. I was not part of them but I did do a few jobs for them. Your parents had friends that were Executors but they were never really part of them. And your parents owned a business and they had a rival who had threatened them and their money. And so they had me kill him. I was twenty-seven.

"I came back to them after the job was done and they refused to pay me. They had said that I had no evidence to prove that I had succeeded in the job. I got angry and I knew that they had a child."

"So you sent a someone who had the Bite of a panther to kidnap me, adding more fuel to my biological parent's hatred for the Bitten," I finished. 

She nodded. "No one messes with my money. The Bitten person came and gave me you. You were such a cute little thing and you were so young. I had no intention of killing you, so I took you in.

"I changed my name and identity and I went into hiding. I met your father and we fell in love. We got married and we kept you around. I planned to stay this way and not go back to the mercenary life. I never told either of you my past life and I planned never to. But one of Rowena's scouts found your father and the scout realized that he was my husband. The scout tried to interrogate him but your father was oblivious to everything and the scout became angry and stabbed him.

"After your father died, I went out and hunted the scout down and killed him. Then I made us move and here were are now."

I stared at her with disbelief in my eyes. "I don't know you anymore, mom. I don't even know why I'm calling you mom."

"You may not believe it, but I've loved you like my own child for years, Laina."

"But the only reason you took me in as your child was because of your greed for money. There wasn't a single good intention in your heart when you kidnapped me. You did it out of your own gluttony."

"Laina, I raised you with care and as a mother-"

"You killed, mom. I've been living with a murderer my whole life."

"You were the best thing that happened to me."

"If you hadn't kidnapped me, Dad wouldn't have died. Leo wouldn't have died. Mr. Luke wouldn't have died."

"If I didn't kidnap you, you would've been an Executor, Laina- think! You would be the hunter right now, not the hunted. You would be the predator, not the prey."

"And are you saying I should thank you?"

"I'm saying that you shouldn't be mad at me."

I took in a deep breath. "Look, I'm thankful for you raising me and I don't know how I will ever repay it. Maybe you kidnapping me is a good thing. I will still acknowledge you as my mother, but you're a criminal."

There was silence between us. "Laina. I'll go turn myself into the police. I've been thinking about it for years but if I did, who would take care of you? Now that you're older and going to college, I think you'll be able to take care of yourself, am I right?"

I looked up, nodding. "Thank you, mom."

"Just remember that I love you, okay? Nothing will change that."

"Do you want me to go with you to the police station?" I asked.

She smiled. "It's fine. I don't want my daughter to watch me step into a prison, it might be too much for you."

I nodded.

"Just come and visit me from time to time and tell me what's going on, okay?"

"Definitely." I hugged her. "Thank you, mom. This means a lot to me. Thank you so much."

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