Chapter 16: Finally Taken Advantage

[Cindy: Scarlett, we need to talk to you about an urgent matter. Come to the mansion on Tuesday.]

[Cindy: Why are you not answering? Don't forget Tuesday. 10 AM.]

[Analisa: Scarlett, I have been calling you for two days. How come I cannot reach you? Your parents have called me to speak to you. You are needed at the Barnes mansion on Tuesday morning. Philip is deciding on his last will. He has not been well lately.]

Scarlett sighed, seeing the text messages of her biological mother, Cindy Barnes, and her so-called mother, who had raised her for sixteen years, Analisa, Courtney's real mother. She grumbled, “So that’s why they wanted me to go to the mansion.”

“Should I go?” She asked herself. “Are they even going to leave something for me?”

For minutes, Scarlett just sat on the edge of her bed, considering. ‘Courtney will be there and what are the chances that Luca will be there too? Do I have the courage to face them?’

Then again, the thought of her father being unwell made her hea