LECTER JAMES: Rise of the Braveheart

Chapter 71

"What are you talking about, detective?" Lecter questioned. Bruce took out some photographs from the bag he was holding.

"I have been following a very interesting case for months now. Apparently, someone tampered with a body at the crime scene. The victim was a maid for the Braxton family. Officially, they specialize in real estate and things like that. Unofficially, they are drug dealers and arms dealers. This woman in the picture, was a maid for them," he said to Lecter and then showed him the photograph.

Lecter gazed at the woman in the picture with intent. There was no mistaking that her face looked familiar, and Lecter just didn't see the possible of her being his mother.

His mother was murdered by his father, was she not?

"Perhaps it's a coincidence. My mother is dead," he told Bruce.

"That's the same thing we all thought as well, until now. What if, somehow, your mother survived? What if she has been living somewhere all this time?" Bruce asked him.

"Well, if she has been, the