Chapter 7

“My soul will rest in peace only when you…when you destroy the Marine Brothers Society goddess, that bitch…just defeat her, destroy her…not for your father or for yourself, but for me…please.” 

Her breathing soon became labored when I stood up and walked to the door. I knew the next time I’d set my eyes on that body, it would be lacking the breath of life. I was very sure of that. As I walked through the last corridor toward the exit, I discarded every feeling of pride, power, wealth, and influence I once possessed and felt a sudden surge of strength for my mother. Not for the late coward who’d desperately sacrificed her or for my selfish desires, but for my mother. This was because her blood had been accepted, and they still stuck to their guns in ending my father’s life at sixty-three. I was walking out of the clinic when the nurse who had escorted me to my mother’s room reappeared in a hurry, panting slig