<h4>Chapter 504: 504-The Monster Came From The Future</h4>


    <strong>Clementine:</strong>


    "I don’t understand what you are saying," I told his mother, shiftingfortably on the bed because I did not see her as a threat. She was Yorick’s mother. She would never harm me.


    "You ruined the only chance my son had," she screamed, stepping closer until her fingertip brushed my chest.


    I reacted without thinking and pped her hand away.


    "Hands off. What are you doing?" I snapped, even though I still felt very tired. That did not mean she coulde at me like that.


    I could tell she did not like my resistance because she gasped at my audacity.


    "Do you not know who I am?" she muttered, pointing at herself.


    "I know. You’re Yorick’s mother, and I respect that, but do not expect me to let you mistreat me," I replied quietly.


    She smiled, but it was unhinged, and she stepped back from me.


    "I am the mother of the man who will drop you if he hears you are misbehaving with me," she threatened.


    I slowly leaned back against the headboard and sat still.


    I did not know why, but it mattered to me that Yorick did not reject me.


    "But I’m not misbehaving with you. I’m just confused about why you’re upset with me. That is all," I said softly, noticing the change in my own tone.


    "You know what your mother did?"


    She shocked me even more when she brought up my mother, who had died a long time ago. I had seen her in the north once, and ever since then, I had missed her even more.


    "My mother is dead. Why do you have her name in your mouth?" I asked, still trying to stay respectful.


    I kept my hands behind me on the mattress to hold myself up while she ignored every sense of personal space.


    I was a crusader, and I did not say it out loud, but if I felt truly threatened, I would be forced to fight. I could even hurt her without meaning to.


    "Your mother ruined my son’s chance to ever be normal," she screamed again.


    I stared at her, more confused than ever.


    "I don’t get it. Why do you keep saying these things? My mother is dead," I said as tears formed in my eyes from suddenly remembering her so clearly.


    "Are you stupid? Your mother broke the watch, didn’t she?" she shouted.


    As she yelled, I felt something twist inside me, like a distant memory trying toe back. It was not just frightening, it was haunting, especially because I had just dreamed about it.


    "What watch?" I asked carefully.


    Then it struck me.


    The watch.


    The one my mother broke was something I had taken from the north after fighting so many monsters.


    Why was that watch in the past with the monster who hade after me?


    "So you’re realizing it now, aren’t you? That was your brother-inw. What would have happened if he had taken a bite of your brother?" she screamed.


    I lowered my head as my world seemed to spin around me.


    "I don’t get it. My brother-inw? How was he? Wait," I whispered, covering my face with my hands.


    "You know what? Your mother ruined everything, so I have no choice but to do what I ampelled to do," she muttered as she grabbed my arm.


    I shoved her away, and she fell back against the window.


    When I tried to get up from the bed, I noticed my legs were numb again.


    I looked at her and saw her smirking.


    "You really think I would not poison you again? I knew the moment my son started to act up that I could not trust anything, because you foolish children keep proving me wrong for trusting my medicine so much."


    A tear rolled down her cheek when she mentioned her medicine failing, and I did not know what was scarier, the fact that I was still hoping to win her approval, or the fact that she did not care at all.


    "Here’s what we will do," she muttered, walking toward me as my body began to go numb again.


    I wished I had not eaten the cookies she had brought me earlier, before I fell asleep.


    "I will throw you into Charles’ room so he can feed on you. Maybe that will be the best sacrifice, because you are the closest to being useful," she screamed as she grabbed the back of my head in her fist.


    I wanted to fight her off, but my arms were too heavy to move.


    I managed to ce my hand over hers, but that was all I could do. I could not push hard enough to make her let go.


    "Let her go!"


    Finally, Yorick arrived, fists clenched and a dark look on his face.


    His mother turned to him, and I heard her jaw pop.


    "Yorick, it’s okay, but trust me,dy Rimi, I did not do anything. Just tell me once, what do you think I did so I can exin myself to you," I whispered, keeping my tone respectful, and somehow that seemed to upset Yorick even more.


    "Look at her. She doesn’t even know how to defend herself anymore," he muttered.


    Instead of speaking with me, Yorick screamed at his mother.


    "How the fuck did you wake up so early?" His mother screamed back at that point. The chaos began between the mother and son.


    "Please stop fighting. Just stop," I tried to say, but my body was so numb that I could barely scream.


    That stopped Yorick. He turned to me, then looked back at his mother.


    "You fucking drugged her again?" he shouted.


    The minute he yelled those words, goosebumps covered my body. Why would he use his parents, his mother, of drugging me?


    "Well, it seems like you need to be drugged too," his mother replied.


    Instead of denying the usation, his mother stepped away from me and moved toward the window.


    "Baby,e here, he is awake. Take him away," she yelled, causing Yorick to turn toward the door and then look back at me.


    He rushed toward me, ready to carry me. He slid his hands under me, and I slowly wrapped my arms around his neck with difficulty, just as his father arrived at the door with the warriors.