25. Doubts

I stare at my mother's lifeless body, it felt like I was in a nightmare that I wasn't waking up from.

Wake up mom, please. Please wake up. I cradle her and touch her cheek, it was cold. Her lifeless eyes stared back at me and the image would haunt me for the rest of my life. My heart ached, I just wanted my mom to wake up.

Giovanni holds me tightly and I feel his steady heartbeat on my cheek.

I get up and stare at my bloodstained hands and look up at his shirt which was now stained with blood.

"What are you planning?" Giovanni asks looking at me carefully. "Whatever you're planning to do, don't do it, just calm down Emily"

"Calm down, don't tell me to calm down, they killed my mother" I yell. I was angry and I blamed myself, I should have protected her,

What was happening? Why are these things happening to me. I suddenly remember the threat my mother said she had received. What if it's connected. Whoever killed my mother is still out there and is waiting to kill me. Well they can c