Chapter 129: Conflicting Position
Xander’s mobile phone kept ringing while he drove down the road. He briskly switched the ringer off without even looking at who was calling.
To be honest, he was still shocked with what he just found out. Last night was a very difficult night for him. He only stared into his computer monitor for a long time. He had been up, reading all the reports about his mother’s tragic death. He wanted to cry but strangely no tears fell out from his eyes then.
His mother was found dead near a cliff with that kid in her tight embrace; both were covered with blood. The autopsy said all the blood was there because his mother struggled hard fighting the assailant. It was analyzed that his mother held a little girl, Yera, tight as to not fall from the cliff while she fought hard. His mother received multiple stab wounds in every part of her body. In the end, this caused his mother to lose her life.
It took him years to recover. He remembered as a child, that he was full of hatred for losing his mother in such a tragic way. Although, everyone around him would say that his mother did a brave and heroic thing, for him, it was full of idiocy. Yes, that little girl was saved but he lost his pillar; his loving mother. He cursed that little girl, calling her idiot and stupid by getting lost when no one else did. The rules were simple: stay within the marked areas, and don’t cross the ropes that marked where the boundary covered. There was even security outside the ropes... Xander knew by now that something had happened before Yera got lost. Yera did not accidentally get lost and he would look to the bottom of everything but this time... he would need some time alone...
He abruptly turned the steering wheel, moving towards the side of the road as tears clouded his eyes once more. He needed time alone to fix his emotions. Recalling everything was too hard for him. He was afraid Yera would notice his emotional distress. He was even afraid for Yera to find that truth, afraid that Yera would feel guilty for everything. Something that might lead her to distance herself from him, that was a real possibility.
He was crying hard. The perpetrators of his mother’s killing were sentenced to a lifetime inside jail and were all killed behind bars. Xander scoffed as he gritted his teeth. Everything came into light now. Back then he didn’t bother to check everything because he did not want to remember such a tragedy. But then, the consequences seemed not to agree with him. He would call his dad soon to discuss the matter.
After some more time, Xander exhaled loudly. He started the engine, and returned to the road. He was on the way to his private villa. There, he would often hide, finding solitude in himself and enough time to think things straight whenever he was going through something hard.
He would message his wife soon. He knew she would be full of worry, and he didn’t want that. However, at this rate he was unable to talk to her cheerfully like before. His tears fell again as he recalled Yera’s words before his mother’s tree, ’Please let me be his water during this drought, and his shield whenever he needs protection’.
"I hope she kept her promise mom," Xander mumbled with a sigh.