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Chp 120 - Died For A Mistake

“Mum?”

Adam’s voice stopped her rocking motion.

“Adam?” she called as she slowly opened her eyes.

“Mum, it is me,” Adam said as he quickly moved towards her.

He paid the man no heed as the latter ran out of the basement.

A whiff of an unpleasant odour hit Adam’s nostrils even before his mother opened her eyes and raised her hands towards him.

Adam could see drying liquid matter on her hand.

“You are alive,” she said in a forlorn voice as she patted him awkwardly.

The strong smell filled his nose as he looked down at the figure on his mother’s lap.

It was unrecognised because it was bloated.

A gaping hole peeked at Adam from the skull that belonged to a face that Adam knew as much as he knew his own.

“Is he…?”

“He is dead,” Marriane said simply, as if she were talking about the weather.

Her glazed eyes looked starry at Adam. “They killed him. They said you killed a girl. Did you kill a girl?”

A mixture of guilt and shame welled in Adam as he stared into the shock-glazed and devastated
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