Goodbye Forever, Mom
"Are you out of your mind? What's done is done. What more do you want from me?"
He didn't get to finish. His face suddenly changed, and after a violent fit of coughing, blood sprayed from his mouth.
He'd been poisoned.
My mother sat there, watching him, and smiled.
"It was just a little something extra in your food. I won't pretend it doesn't hurt, but it's nothing compared to a fraction of what my daughter felt before she died. I regret it every day, letting an ungrateful mongrel like you into our home. Because of you, my family's in ruins.