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Chapter XV

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Zoe wrung her fingers nervously, she felt the need to wrap her fingers around the knob and push, but she couldn't. She was given the go by the doctor to see the patient but she couldn't help the overcrowding feeling of guilt surrounding her. Dacia was the only person who knew about who she came to visit since her last appearance in town.

Slowly she turned the knob pushing the door ajar only enough to peep through. The room was quite spacious, she took notice of the cream sofa pushed against the wall, teal blue throw cushions splayed against it, an artificial rose in a plastic vase and a queen bed tucked snugly into the corner. However extravagant the room looked it lacked basic necessities and she could only assume they were precautions to keep all residents out of harms way.

The empty bed looked rustled almost as if someone had just exited it.

" Miss Luella, we have someone here to meet you" she fought the urge to runaway but she needed some form of strength right now even though her brain couldn't fathom why she chose here of all places.

She heard the dragging of feet on the carpet but hardened her fist whenever nausea overwhelmed her.

"who are you?" the aging woman hesitantly came closer dark brown almond shaped eyes raking over her in curiosity as she pursed her fat lips curiously.

Her heart sunk but this was the distraction she wanted, the distraction she needed ,someway somehow she needed to forget everything for just a minute and focus on the present she decided to open.

" My name is Zoe, i'm here to ask you a few questions for the annual census" the woman's face lit up her bright eyes immediately changing from apprehensiveness to excitement. Maybe it was the fact that she hadn't brought up her past or the fact she remembered much nothing of it, a small grain of hope sat on her shoulder. maybe she would see the familiarity between them.

"oh... i haven't had much time I've been waiting for my husband Samuel but he's probably running late, just hopes he makes it in time for dinner" she bit her tongue to keep from asking if she meant the same man that beat and abused her then molested her only child. Whatever memory she held onto of her late father was cruel , that man was the epitome of evil; it rested on his heart and spread to his mind releasing it through his entire body. He preyed on those he knew wouldn't fight back whether it be from his fake confessions of love or those he knew were weak or knew no better.

"What's his name if you don't mind me asking?" she softly patted the edge of the now straightened bed with a small smile.

"Samuel Jones" she answered with ease. A coy smile played on her lips as if the thought of him was something to be proud of.

"Do you have any children?" Luella's face scrunched then as quickly as it came it disappeared.

"Yes but don't mind me saying nun' she was a horrible child, spreading lies on her own father about hurting me when all that man ever did was show us love her especially but that no good seed sprouted horribly" she paused sighing rubbing her old wrinkled hands together. " she would tease my husband and have him do disgusting vile things to her. I couldn't have that type of embarrassment growing in my house so i had her shipped off to my mother" her eyes shone with deep distaste.

She was so blinded by his abuse she slowly fell into the cycle even blaming her own flesh and blood for her husband's infidelity and twisted mind.

her own child.

"Do you know what happened to her?" the question rang out for a few seconds before her eyes shone with fiery hatred.

" that no good hussy ain't neva woulda made it into anything and i made sure to reminder her everyday the lord blessed me with" she smirked darkly chuckling to herself as she carried on "she was big and fat so i made sure to starve her at least once a week but she was always getting in trouble with Samuel, an impure child. i couldn't live for it " Zoe looked down at her thin wrists.

"what happened when she left if you don't mind me?" she looked at me weirdly flicking her wrist in my direction.

"young lady you are going to far in grown folks business" she stuttered scratching her head.

" i'm sorry Ms. Luella but are you ready to tell me about what happened when she left?"abusing her power on an elderly woman's brain was the least of her worries .

"now why would i tell you that!"she looked at her incredulously .

"because you were about to start with it" she made herself looked shocked for added effect.

"oh sometimes i can be a bit forgetful" she paused with a hand to her forehead her face and mindset worlds apart. " that night when he came home he ate slowly at the table then out of nowhere he began accusing me of cheating, beat me black and blue for a good hour then went down the halls looking for that little girl she screamed and cried for the whole neighborhood to hear, i'd like to think of it as god punishing her for her for her crimes against me and my husband" her voice shifted from smug to anger " she hit him in the eye with her silver church pumps, damaged his eye permanently , let's just say what i did to her for the three days he was hospitalized will never leave either of our minds" Zoe froze at images threading painfully through her mind all at once.

Standing to her feet she looked at the older version of herself " I have every right to hate you- but my God will never forgive me so in order to be right with him I have to be right with you. You may have not been the mother I wanted or a mother at all but i forgive you and i will honor you, so goodbye mother" her stomach churned but with the last bit of courage she left the shocked woman before she would no doubt leave another negative reminder of who she truly was to Zoe.

"wait" with her fingertips on the doorknob and the door cracked open she turned only to receive a searing sting to her cheek. Was it possible for your heart to be broken twice in one setting.

"i never want to see your face again you filthy w****" holding back the tears Zoe left with a heavy heart and light conscience, the bittersweet feeling consuming her every thought.

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