The monster I called my mother

Camilla entered her mansion with gun dressed in a black skirt and white blouse, wearing glasses.Her short black hair styled.

The body guards bowed to her as she entered and walked in the house.

Surprisingly,she saw Theo,her one and only son who hardly visits.

She glanced at him and kept walking.

"Please,I need to talk to you",Theo said as he followed his mother behind as she walked up the stairs.

"I do not care if you don't want to answer,but please,I need answers",Theo spoke again but she gave him the cold shoulders.

"Did Aiden do it?",Theo asked.

Camilla stopped walking.without turning to look at Theo,"ask yourself that question",she said and kept walking with gun.

Gun opened the two huge doors to her office and they all walked inside.

"Why can't you just answer me!?. someone died and my son is a suspect!.my mind is not at rest!",Theo yelled.

Camilla sunk in her chair and exhaled as she removed her glasses.She looked at him,"nuisance",she muttered.

Theo sat on the sofa,"nuisance?",he looked at her.

Camilla wrote an address in a paper,folded it after she was done and threw it at him.

The paper hit Theo and fell on the floor.

Theo glanced at his mother as he bent to pick the paper from the floor.He opened it,saw the address and looked at her,"what is this?".

"Answers",she said as she rested her elbows on her table and placed her hands in a temple, resting her chin in it.

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Their drove till he arrived at a lonely area.It was still in the state but it was more than a two hours drive.

He had to park the car at the corner of the road and came down,since it was in the woods.

He walked into the words looking for an abandoned house.

He saw an abandon house just as it was written in the address.He walked towards the house.The door was spoilt and opened.The house looked like it has been like that for more than 10 years.

"Hello?",he said as he walked through the sitting room.

Rats ran across the room.The stench was strong so he had to cover his nose with his hand.

He opened a room door and looked around.Cobwebs were everywhere.He coughed and closed the door.

He continued to walk as he noticed the bathroom door was not closed.

The stench was getting stronger as he walked towards the bathroom.He entered the bathroom and he could see blood stains on the ground to the bathtub.

He kept walking to the tub slowly, curiously.He saw what was in the tub and was terrified.It was a body that was destroyed by acid.

The face was dried up while the mouth hung open.It showed that the person was still conscious while it happened.

Out of fear,Theo ran out from the house,out of the woods and back to his car,speeding off.

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Camilla and gun were chatting, talking about business.

Camilla was sitting on her chair while gun was beside her,showing her some documents.

Theo stormed In and the two looked at him.

He stood there,drenched in his sweat,terrified and speechless as he clenched his fist,glaring at her.

"What else do you want?", Camilla asked as she looked at the documents but Theo didn't respond.

She smiled sadistically as she glanced at him and signed a document given to her by gun.

"That was the security guard in charge of the CCTV room that night Someone told him to delete the footages and he won't say who.

Why will he fear another?.

Tortured him for a long time,still didn't speak.

My boys have to do the needful under my command.

Say the truth and die a less painful death,why don't people understand that?",she grinned.

She raised her eyes to look at Theo,he was still the same way.

She laughed hysterically,"You know.I once showed Aiden a dead body,he didn't even react this way.

Just a few sleepless nights and he was fine.

But,what is this?.His father a 31 year old man can't handle it.

He was thirteen when I showed him that.13,Theo.

I still remember the day he was born.I noticed those eyes,they were like mine and I loved him immediately",she laughed.

Theo was disgusted,"Are you even human?",he asked.His voice filled with pain as he looked at his mother sitting in front of him,like she was a monster.

Her smile faded as she glared at him,"Instead of breaking in front if Aiden,send him back here if you can't handle it",she said as she called her bodyguards to drag him out.

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Theo sat on the bench in the public playground that night.Itbeas the same playground where arella took him to.

The scene in that abandoned house could not leave his head.

ARELLA POV

I was jogging across the public playground when I saw a familiar figure sitting on a bench.

"Better avoid him",I said as I kept jogging forward.

I jogged backward.He was staring into the blank space like he was going through something.

"I should mind my business",I said as I jogged forward.

I jogged backward,"I shouldn't just pretend like I don't know him".

I walked and sat with him on the bench.

He didn't notice when I sat beside him, He was deeply lost in thoughts.

I cleared my throat,he didn't flinch.I cleared my throat again,still nothing.

I placed my hand on his chin and turned his face to mine and he flinched.

"Miss Gabriel?,when did you get here?",he asked, surprised of my presence.

I exhaled as I crossed my leg,"you have money,what else do you think about?".

"How are you,miss Gabriel's",he asked with a smile.

"Am fine but I don't know about you",I said as I stared at him.

He relaxed his back and stared at the blank space again He acted differently from the Theo I knew.

"You can talk to me",I said

He glanced at me,"what's the most traumatic experience you've ever had".

That question hit me like an arrow.

I sunk my hands in my hoodie pocket,"I've had traumas.And when it seemed I've healed from one,another appears.

It's like happiness........,wasn't meant for me.from my mother's death,my dad remarrying ,my dad chasing me out of the house when he found out I was pregnant at 15,or____".

Theo cut her off,"You're a mother?".

I gulped and turned my head to him staring into his eyes.

After seconds of silence and said the words,"I was".