The Cost of Revenge, Part Iii

“And then I turned, my mind truly burned said,’What kind of a sick mother would go coerce a child of hers to sleep with her own half-brother?! “ ‘You are a fool, and a mother cruel, no matter what my father did! To prostitute, and try to pollute, and to do it with your own kid?!’ “And she did say, ‘To make that man pay I’d go much further than all that.’ So I declared, ‘Then you should despair, since our evening did go off track. “ ‘Your daughter ran, so your vile plans were foiled before they could start! And your evil unable to kill the virtue that lay in her heart.’ “ “On hearing this both her eyes did twitch, she screamed loud and pulled out a knife. He change was swift, I made a quick shift and found myself fighting for life. “She slashed so quick, I nearly got nicked, she clearly meant to make me dead. I grabbed a lamp and swung like a champ, smashing it clear across her head. “Called the police, they showed up quickly, clearly saw it was self-defense, I told the tale and then I did wail, ‘Please find where my half-sister went!’ “ “It seemed to me that this tragedy could not get that much worse than this, but just past four they did find her corpse, she had thrown herself off a cliff. “By old Route One she had gone and flung herself to the gorge far below, saw no escape from her awful fate, decided on that way to go. “After all this life seemed quite amiss, Took many months to work it out, this secret cold, family not told, I did not share this all out loud. “Ma and sister never heard a word, went to their graves praising my dad, a lie, I know, but bringing them low did feel to me equally bad. “But I felt rage for his sinful ways, and the costs that they did extract: Two people dead because he mislead… You can’t get away from the fact. “Not many years passed before more tears, penicillin came, thankfully the syphilis that made all amiss could be killed now quite easily. “And that’s what hurts, made it all feel worse, she could be with us here and now, a life unlived, and what could she give if a few more years were allowed. “All was cut down by a hatred crowned with a mad craving for pay-back, two lives destroyed, and I just avoid being killed by the slash and hack. “I knew it seems like a thing obscene, a decadent, soap-opera feat, but it’s our past, so I now am tasked telling you why you must not cheat...” CONCLUDES IN PART IV.