Escape plan gone wrong.

CHAPTER FIFTY ONE
CHRIS
I woke up the next morning feeling pains all over my body, I had slept for two days straight, I was too weak from the beating I had received from Avril's parents. U wouldn't forget the look on their faces when they got to where I lay in the pool of my own blood after they had user the poisoned arrow on my leg.
At first they had doubts, and needed a close look to confirm it was actually me, I would not forget her mom's exclamation, how they had hit me severally using different weapons that were poisoned.
It wasn't fair at all, and they didn't treat me with even the slightest form of tenderness, knowing I was only a teenager, plus I am their daughter's boyfriend, the only child of their family friend and business partner. I felt so much bitterness in me yet I wouldn't blame them, they were only doing their jobs, anyone in their shoes would have done the same.
They weren't the worst set of people, afterall my parents don't love me either, they had only birthed me to have a heir to succeed them, they do not have an atom of love for me, this had only proved it, they haven't even come to see me, how dare they abandon me here to die?
Mom and dad have never showed any kind of love, or attention towards me, how will others even love me when my parents hate me so much?
They must be glad I would die soon, at least they have gotten rid of me in their lives by now, I am sure mom particularly will be so excited about this news.
I felt so much hatred in my heart for my parents, and blamed them that I got bitten in the first place. If mom and dad loved me, or showed a y kind of affection towards me, if they were at home that night I wouldn't walk into the bush and get bitten by a werewolf, all of these won't be happening by now if I was loved by my so called parents.
Different thoughts ran through my mind, I was also more worried about Avril's safety, I prayed she wouldn't give herself out just to protect me. The werewolf business is more than our brains could carry, and Avril would never be spared if she is caught.
I don't mind dying right now, as long as Avril is safe, then there is no problem.
My thoughts were interrupted by the sound of the keys turning, I looked up to see my mom standing outside the door. I had perceived her scent from afar but decided to shake it off, I really didn't expect her to be here by this time.
"What are you doing here?" I asked in a very harsh tone.
Mom entered inside, fell on her knees and began crying uncontrollably, she sobbed so much that I was moved to join her. We were both sobbing for a very long time.
I stood up and walked up to mom, I helped her up and took her hand as we walked back to where I sat before. It was note comfortable z although she still had to sit on the bare floor, but she could rest her back on the wall.
"I can't believe you came mom", I said sadly.
"I am sorry my son, so so sorry for all I made you pass through, for not being there for you when you needed me the most, for neglecting you, for everything I have made you pass through son, please forgive me", she cried.
"Why?" I asked as tears flowed down freely from my cheeks down to my neck, I didn't bother to wipe them off, I just let them fall freely.
"I am so so sorry son, please find a place in your heart to forgive me, forgive me for everything son, for making you pay for my past, for making you go through all of these, making you pay for the sins of my parents and grand parents", she kept crying as she apologized.
"What are you talking about mom?" I asked, I was curious and my ear itched to hear the reason I was treated so badly, and neglected so much.
"My parents were bound by fixed marriage, so as my grand parents, also my great grand parents. I didn't get to know this, until I was fifteen, I had a boyfriend in grade ten who I loved so much, my parents got to find out and insisted that I broke up with him without giving me reasons. I wasn't ready to give up Raphael for any reason so I kept dating him behind their back until I was sixteen, my parents got to know and murdered him, I later got to know he was a werewolf, that was there excuse, they were also werewolf hunters", mom stopped inhaled sharply and coughed for a bit.
"That was their excuse for killing Raphael but I know they had other reasons as well. I started investigation. I got to find out from my grand parents I was bound by fixed marriage and decided to confront my parents and they didn't deny it. They decided to engage me to my betrothed, since I already found out about it, I refused the engagement, I had said I'd rather die with Raphael than marry another man, to the extent I even drank poison to free myself from the earth", she paused and began crying again, the story was boring to me, so so boring, it wasn't what I expected but I decided to play cool, and find out the outcome of the story, at the end.
"So?" I asked getting impatient, not because I liked the story, but because I wanted her to get done with it and leave my life the hell alone, I wanted her to just leave here.
"I didn't die, I continued to live in this wicked world, my life became miserable and I had no choice than to marry my bethroted", she sniffed and continued. "Your father. I didn't love him yet I married him, because I didn't have a choice, your father didn't love me either, he had a girlfriend and didn't stop seeing her even after we got married. I complained to my parents that the husband they gave me was cheating on me, they asked me for her name, and all the information about his girlfriend. I gave them all the information they needed about her and the next month she was found dead....." I yawned loudly out of boredom and mom placed her hands on my stomach.
"Are you hungry? Didn't you have anything to eat this morning yet?" Mom asked.
"I am fine mom, just get over with the story, get done with it already", I said and I was sure she could sense the harshness in my voice.
"Am I boring you?" Mom asked.
"Of course you are", I replied bluntly.
"Okay then, I will just leave", mom said and was about to leave, she placed her hand on her face, she was obviously sobbing, she took a step forward but I held her hand back.
"Tell me, I am sorry mom. Go ahead with the story", I said and pulled her down to sit beside me.
Mom sat down beside me and cuddled my hands in hers.
"Your dad was devastated after the death of his girlfriend, we both also had agreed that we wouldn't bare a child, but our parents forced us to. They insisted that we should have a child, to continue our lineage. We didn't have a choice and I took in after very few months of our wedding, I delivered of a bouncing baby boy, and promised myself he wouldn't got through the same fate I went through", she said.
"So what happened to the vow?" I asked.
"I'm sorry, I am still trying to keep to it", my mom said she was still sobbing.
"Trying how? Or are you making me pay for the sins of my fire fathers on purpose?" Mom asked.
"Why? Why do you think I will hurt you on purpose? Actually I did but not on purpose", she said.
"Mom, make me understand something, am I bethroted to someone else as well?" I asked anxiously and she stared at me with tears in her eyes.