<h4>Chapter 136: Chapter ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SIX: A Broken Mother</h4>


    Kendrick’s POV


    Ring Ring!


    I kept driving as fast as I could, then my phone suddenly rang. I picked it up and connected it to the car, so I can focus on driving.


    My friend who was based abroad and a professor at Zain’s previous school suddenly called. I had asked him to help with transferring Zain’s academic records to enable his smooth enrollment.


    "Hello Kendrick" he greeted with a serious tone.


    "Sam, this might not be the best time to talk now, I will call youter" I said as I didn’t have the time to waste on any other issue.


    "Kendrick, wait,there is something odd I found out and I think you need to know to better protect yourself" he said with an anxious voice when he realized that I was going to end the call.


    "What do you mean?" I asked him with a frown as I ran another red light.


    "I did a Check on your brother, Zain Singhania, and found some disturbing things" he said and his voice became a little low, like he was scared of being heard.


    I immediately frowned and my grip on the steering wheel tightened as I took several deep breaths.


    I pressed the record button on my phone as I needed to keep whatever he was about to say as evidence.


    "He was admitted into the university but he dropped out in his second year.


    He continued acting like he was going to school and it seemed like his lecturers were scared of him.


    His father paid a lot of money to reinstate him and that was when things went wrong. He brutally killed one of his course mates and was arrested.." he paused to take a deep breath.


    Everything he was saying felt foreign, it was like the Zain I met is a totally different person from the one he was talking about.


    Was mother aware of all of this?


    Did the father and son keep her in the dark?


    "He waster released after his reports showed that he had schizophrenia. He was to stay and get treatment at a mental health care facility but a monthter, his father got him out." he continued and I frowned as none of the things I knew and the ones he was saying made sense.


    It was like we were talking about two entirely different people.


    "Apart from his stay in the hospital this year, I couldn’t find any previous issues with his health. It seems like a huge ploy to get some money from your mother


    The father and son duo is really frightening" Sam concluded and I didn’t know what to say at this point. All I could feel was anger.. intense, blood boiling anger.


    "Be safe my friend"he said before hanging up.


    I increased the speed of the car and focused on the road like being focused would make me reach there in no time.


    An hourter, I finally arrived at the ck residence. I jumped out of the car as soon as it came to a stop and rushed into the mansion with my phone in my hand.


    "Kendrick, why didn’t you tell me you wereing? I would have made something for you to eat" my mother said with a smile when she saw me.


    Her expression looked genuine and I had a feeling that she wasn’t aware of what happened.


    "Where is Zain?" I asked her and her face immediately changed when she observed my expression.


    "Is something wrong? Did he do something?" she asked anxiously and I frowned.


    "Do you really not know or you are just ying dumb"I asked angrily and she took a step back in shock.


    "What has he done? Tell me Kendrick, I will definitely get him to apologize" she begged anxiously.


    "What’s all the noise for?" Her husband’s voice came from the stairs.


    He walked down slowly with a mocking smile on his lips.


    "Adrian, I think Zain did something to offend Kendrick, quickly call him over to apologize" my mother said to him.


    "He did nothing wrong, he is only fighting for what is rightfully his" he replied to her with a frown.


    "What nonsense are you both talking about!" my mother suddenly yelled while looking at our faces.


    "Your precious son has kidnapped Christy and I just found out that he is schizophrenic. He has killed someone before but your husband got him out and he was never sick, it was all a huge fucking ploy!" I gave her a brief breakdown and she shook her head in denial.


    "My son can never do such a thing, honey exin to Kendrick, I am sure this is all a huge misunderstanding" she said while urging her husband to speak.


    "He is your son and has every right to fight for the ck family inheritance but Zain has always been weak and nerdy." He replied to her with a disgusted expression.


    "What did you do? You were aware of my identity all these years? When did you find out?" she asked him with a horrified expression.


    He slowly took off his sses and looked nothing like the gentleman that he has always portrayed himself to be.


    "Did you really believe that I would marry just anyone? I knew you were the Heiress of the influential ck family and I waited patiently for us to have a son, so we can fight for the right to inheritance.


    I was ecstatic when you gave birth to Zain but as he grew up, I noticed he wasn’t the perfect son that I had hoped for. He was just a bookworm and even got bullied severally." he said with a disgusted tone.


    It was like he was talking about someone he hated.


    A thought suddenly popped up in my head but I quickly shook my head to dismiss it as there was no way anyone could be so deranged.


    "He is our son, how can you hate him?!" my mother yelled at him angrily.


    "I hated that part of him, that’s why I got rid of it!" he yelled back like what he was saying made no sense.


    "You got rid of it? What did you do" my mother’s voice trembled as she stared at him with an extremely horrified expression.


    " I got him treated and turned into the son I wanted. Now he is making me proud and it’s only a matter of time before everything bes ours" he said with a triumphant smile.


    I observed his face for a while and suddenly remembered something.


    "You were the one that informed Evan’s parents about the funeral right?" I asked him directly and heughed.


    "You are quite smart,"he replied with a smirk.


    Luckily I hadn’t confronted Harold yet, he wouldn’t have been happy that I was doubting him.


    "Let me guess, you took him to the mental care facility and made sure he actually developed an illness by using drugs and shock therapy, that’s why he looks so sick and pale"I had this idea in my head but I thought it was too evil for someone to do to his own child.


    "If only he was half as smart as you, then I wouldn’t have gone through so much stress," he said.


    He didn’t deny or ept doing it.


    "So the current Zain is a deranged and psychotic alter of himself. The dangerous and vicious version" I concluded.


    My mother was trembling on the ground, her eyes were unfocused and she looked like she was going to faint.


    "What did you do to me? Howe I can’t remember any of these ever happening?" she murmured while ring at him.


    "What’s with that reaction? Our son is perfect now, watch how he takes everything for himself"heughed excitedly.


    "So you have been altering my memories? I always felt like there was something that I was missing." she said with a smile that sent chills down my spine.


    "Kendrick, I am sorry for everything you have been going through ever since you were born. Forgive me for bringing you into this world.


    I wish you happiness in all you do and I hope you and Christy get married peacefully. Forgive your mother" She said and slowly hugged me before walking up the stairs.


    She looked unusually calm and I felt a strong urge to stop her or take her with me.


    "Adrian, let’s talk things out" she said to her husband and continued climbing the stairs.


    "You will get the document soon, you better sign it if you want your little woman to live" He said to me before going to meet her.


    I felt extremely calm instead of the reaction I had thought earlier. He was right in front of me but there was no urge to hit or yell at him.


    I turned to leave without saying anything else, I needed to head over to the Lancaster residence.


    But as soon as I stepped out of the mansion, I saw Mason and Kelvin waiting outside.


    "What are you doing...."


    BANG!


    BANG!


    I was startled by the sudden gun shots that came from inside the mansion. I rushed upstairs and headed straight to my mother’s room.


    The scene I saw made my knees weak and I would have fallen down if Kelvin hadn’t supported me.


    The floor of the room was covered in blood and Adrian, had a bullet hole in his head while she was bleeding from her chest with a gun in her hand.


    "Mother!" I held her in my arms, she was bleeding profusely.


    "Call an ambnce," Mason instructed Kelvin as he checked Adrian for pulse.


    "Be... Happy" my mother said with blood flowing out of her mouth.


    She had shot herself in the heart after killing Adrian. I regretted not stopping her earlier.


    She slowly closed her eyes and just like that, she was gone forever.