Did You Really Save Me

Chapter Forty

Max POV

When we get back to the house Travis and Caleb take the man tied up in the trunk down to a room in the basement and I lead my mum over to the kitchen. "What do you want to eat mum?" I ask her, worried as to when the last time she had eaten. "Anything dear," she replies, looking very tired. "How about a small salad with some steak? That should be light enough for you to eat, then you can have a rest." She nods as her reply.

I start cooking the steak and making the salad for her, it only takes a few minutes and the dish is done. I walk over to her and place it down on the table, she picks up her knife and fork and starts eating. "It's very nice dear, thank you," my mother says with a slight twinkle in her eyes. I smile in return. "You know mum that you won't be able to stay here for very long, you're going to need to get care for when you were taken, a-and you will need to get a job and get back on your feet again. I'm not saying I don't want you around or anything! But, I think it will be safer for you."

My mother stops eating and looks up at me as I finish speaking. "I know dear, I know. No need to worry, I understand." With that she gives me a fond smile and motions to her empty bowl, "where shall I put this?" I take the bowl gently from her and place it in the sink, "you don't need to worry about that mum," I walk back over to her and help her out of the chair, "let's go upstairs so you can get some rest." She nods and allows me to guide her up to Xavier and I's room. Almost as soon as her head touches the pillow she was asleep. It makes my heart break.

As I reach the lounge room I spot most of the members gathered around, they all look up when they hear my footsteps. "How's your mother doing?" Travis asks gently, "she's fine now, just resting." They all nod. "We're glad you found your mother again Max but we wish you were reunited in a nicer way," Steve speaks up. "Yeah, I wish the same as well but, at least I found her in the end. So what are you going to do to the guy down in the basement?"

They all look a bit surprised since the time I saw him I knocked him out cold. "Well we are definitely going to get our money back but then after that, we will probably kill him," Connor says nonchalantly. "Why's that Max?" Kyle asks suspiciously, "well I would like to torture and kill him for taking my mother and god knows what else he did to her." Even just thinking about the trash of a human makes my blood boil and fists clench.