battle scars // h.s

Chapter 26.

*Lillian POV*

“Lillian I’m sure you have lots of questions and I-I will answer them, I’m so sorry.” My mum said to me, she looked concerned by my shocked face.

“Mum its okay, we can talk later…” I said trying to sort through a lot of emotions but I was mostly consumed by a blank sort or emotion; I don’t really know what to think or what’s really going on.

“I’m sorry, umm anyway do you have a hotel room here or…?” she asked pulling up the handle on my suitcase, which was sitting in front of her.

“Uhh no, I may have just come here on a last minute thing.” I said smiling a little at how for once I was completely careless as to just jump up and travel across the world.

But I had to. I need to know…

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She took me back to her little apartment and made some coffee before we settled in at the kitchen table ready to talk and hopefully listen to each other.

“Lillian, I’ll answer all your questions. Your old enough to understand why it had to be done.” She said and more questions popped into my mind, wanting to now what ‘it’ was and why ‘it had to be done’.

My mind may have been full but I couldn’t bring myself to ask anything. I was sort of numb and dull to everything at the moment and was afraid of what she would say.

“Its alright sweetheart, everything will be fine.” She said reaching over and putting her hand over mine; her hand was warm in comparison to my ice cold one.

“Umm the one thing that’s been bugging me is, why? Why did you leave and take Emma with you?” I finally asked and my mums eyes watered obviously at the memory.

“Well, as you know your father works for the police and justice department in the UK and at this time he was working on a very complicated case. He was never home…” she started and I squeezed her hand trying to give her strength.

“I had my own problems that he was trying to figure out. I was trying to hide them because of his job, they could’ve thrown me in jail in a heartbeat. I never meant for my demons to end the family and I’ve been trying to tell myself that it wasn’t me.” she continued.

“I found out your father was working on a case involving Kristy and her brother Jace.” She said and I nearly spit out my coffee.

“Jace is Kristy’s brother?” I asked really loudly and my mum just nodded sadness swimming in her eyes.

“Kristy was trying to break me and your father apart. So she told her brother that Emma went to his school and that he needed to get involved with Em; he would repot back to her and once Emma and Jace started going out he would tell Kristy about our family situation. Your father and me were having problems then, two sided both me and him had issues but because I was smoking weed I was the bigger problem in the family; the burden.” She explained and I felt so sick.

To think that Jace and Kristy weaseled their way into our family and broke up my parents and took my sister away from me was making me want to be sick.

“Your sister told me a few weeks ago that Jace was bugging you and that he had taken you one day, and I cried for days. I know what he’s capable of and I was so worried for you. Your father has been responsible for Jace being put in detention center’s and I was worried that he would use you to seek revenge on your father. They have bad blood.”

My mind was spinning. So Jace and Kristy are related. They both broke up my family and are trying to drive Emma and me away and to the US just like mum. But why did Jace say that Emma worked for someone after she was taken away with my mum?