Until There Was You

Lexi

Chapter 19

*Lexi*

'Mum'

The woman that looks just like me rushes towards me with tears in her eyes. I stick my hands out in front of me quickly and hurt my ribs and wrist in the process. I wince and Liam notices, he turns into my guard dog and I couldn't be more grateful. What does she want now after all this time?

'That's close enough.' He orders and she takes a step back.

'Sorry, you must be Liam Coltan, I have read all about you and your whirlwind romance with my daughter. Anne Hall pleasure to meet you.' She shamelessly gushes at him, fluttering her eyebrows the lot.

'You got married?' I butt in before he can answer.

'Well yes dear, six months ago. I would have invited you, it would have been nice to catch up. But I didn't want to rub it in Mike's face. You can understand that can't you honey?' She says not an ounce of guilt for abandoning me with him.

'Why are you here?' Liam questions when words fail me.

'That's between me and my daughter, can you give us five minutes please?' She flutters her eye lashes again, its sickening to watch.

'No, Liam stays.' I demand and he sit on the bed next to me with his arm rest protectively over my head, the other hand playing with my fingers.

'You don't trust your own Mum?' She scoffs.

'Your not my Mother Anne.' I snarl. I don't care if it hurts her, I am hurting so much more than she can ever imagine.

'Say what you came to say and then leave, I will not have you upsetting her.' Liam snaps when tears fill my eyes.

'I wanted to catch up with my eldest child and see how you have been doing.' Is she fucking blind as well as stupid, how does she think I am doing when she is visiting me in hospital!

None of us speak, I can tell Liam wants to but he holds his tongue and stare my pathetic excuse of a Mother. I am trying not to crumble. She came back for me? Can I really hate her if she came back for me eventually?

'Very well then, you can't press charges against Mike Alexis, he is sorry and he never meant to do this to you. He was a mess when I saw him yesterday.' She says with the most sympathy and remorse I have seen in her yet. And its for him.

'You went to see him before your own daughter?' Liam rages and I stare at my hands trying to control my feelings, she must really hate me.

'As I was saying Alexis.' She continues stating my name but glaring at Liam. 'He is a mess and he only acted the way he did when he was provoked by your boyfriend here, you abandoning him brought back old feelings of me. He couldn't lose his little girl as well. So if this is anyone's fault it is mine, not poor Mike.'

Liam is shaking in anger and he is going to blow up, I put my hand on his arm and he looks at me. I shake my head at him, I can handle this. She is my Mother.

'You are right Anne.' I say and she smiles as Liam stands in outrage but I just hold my hand up to silence him before he has chance.

'It is all your fault Anne, NOT mine. However it was me he beat for the last two years whilst you lived your life. Its was me he tried to sell for sex to buy his beer with. It was me who he tried to beat to death, and very nearly succeeded....NOT YOU! It is all your fault, you couldn't just be a good Wife and Mother. Yet I paid for your fuck ups every single day since you left and started a new family.' I spit at her and it feels good to get it off my chest, but it still hurts to say it all out loud.