A Mother Drifting Away

Fortunately, Elizabeth shook her head. "No. I never had blood...literally in my hands. One bullet is enough," She said, which was the truth. She never killed her target up close. All those people she killed, she killed them from a distance using a sniper rifle and one bullet. That's all that she needed to get justice for their victims.

"How many have you killed?" Alice asked. Each word felt like a huge boulder of rock passing through her throat. It was hard to speak the words out loud but she had to. She had to know so she had to ask.

Elizabeth went silent. Either she was contemplating answering or counting the number of people she killed. She doesn't count the number of people she killed but she knows who they are. But now that she finally realized how many there are they, she was shocked at the number and suddenly, she felt ashamed. She cannot bring herself to tell her mother.

"Mom, I'm sor-"

"How many have you killed?"