Chapter Ten: To uncover a secret

Ella

Adrian left me to make wedding preparations on my own. I was so upset but then again, I’m just grateful that this whole mess has began to die down a little. I was hurt after discovering that everyone has been looking for me lately and not because I was attractive, but because of what my family line has been in charge of.

‘’What kind of twisted game is this!?’’ I ask Nana who just looks at me apologetically as if they had no choice. ‘’What's the whole point of this if you can’t even keep your own family safe by paying their hospital bills?’’ I spit angrily as I am unable to understand how a normal mother would watch her child die in the name of keeping a legacy safe.

I had come to visit her but from the way Adrian insisted I knew something was up but I had no idea that it was something as horrifying as sacrificing my mother.

‘’I was being tested. Ella.’’ She begins but stops halfway when I glare at her.

‘’So you decided to cover up and use my mother’s blood as a cleansing sac