Chapter 48

CORNELIUS

I-I shit it was her.

I might have forgotten her face but I still could remember those eyes staring down at me encouraging me to take a swing on the ride in the old park in LA that was demolished years ago.

“Put your guns down”

She bellowed and my finger didn’t stray from the trigger as Lydia held onto my arm urging me to put my Glock back to where I had whipped it from.

But I could see it, I could see the fear and surprise in Lydia’s face as we both glared at the man in front of us.

My mother.

Christ, Sussanne Powers stood between us caught between the spit fire…

“What’s he doing here?” I hollered as Joaquin’s eyes strayed to Lydia and the need to blow his brains out screamed in my head with an uproar.

Joaquin hand on his damn gun didn’t falter as he looked at the woman who birthed me with the same same questioning eyes.

“Please”, Sussanne placed her gun on Joaquin’s lowering it, till the said thing rested on his side.

Lydia’s hands hugged my shoulder encouraging me to do th