Whitney & Udo: Love Beyond the Grave Diary ------an american story) - Okwuchi Chris Ihebereme - Bog

Ms. Helley put up a fake smile, shook her head, and continued, "Whitney my daughter, you got guts, some real heavy bad dirty stinking guts. "And" she paused. "I really don't know where that is coming from. You kids think that conservative women are nothing but what your fathers paint us to be, weak. Being a mother does not mean I lack basic instincts for safety, and security. Whatever gives you those thoughts that I'll melt away like ice when you yell, is wrong. I'm your mother. I carried you 9 months in my womb," Ms. Helley continued, while beating her tummy with her left palm. "If you think you can do it, whatever makes you think I can't?" She said, shaking her head, making a dirty face. "No, I'm better off losing a wild uncontrollable daughter to save an innocent husband and make my two last children have living parents rather than dead ones. I'll not hesitate to do it, just don't push me. Please don't try my hand. I'll surely decimate you, in a heartbeat," she threatened Whitney. Her first right finger remained on the trigger ready to shell out the bullets, while she stretched out her left hand towards her daughter, a gesture for her to give up her fully loaded pistol or be faced with overwhelming force "and it'll be just in self-defense." ---------- Shuddered, Whitney was shocked at her mom's reaction. She became very proud of her mother. She didn't believe her mother can hold a gun talk less of being an NRA- A rated gun carrier. It was different for her father who used to parade his guns, brag and go to gun shows and even keep the guns carelessly such that anyone can easily pick a firearm from his numerous collections of those weapons of war, without him suspecting.But despite her admiration for her mother, she knew surrendering and giving up her weapon would mean giving up on the revenge mission she sought for her boyfriend. She knew the law will never give justice to Udo faced with her white supremacist father who happen to be a US Senator. She would rather go down fighting to revenge on those two bullet holes that might have sent Udo to his early demise. And giving up her gun, the weapon that will secure the revenge mission, was the last thing she would do. So, she ------------A passage from Love beyond the grave diaries.