Reassure Her

[Serenity’s POV]

“Uncle Jose,” I announce, not wanting to hear what he is saying. “There’s something that isn’t making sense to me.”

Although he had answered a lot of questions about our family’s history, it left me uneasy. Extremely uneasy.

“What is that?” Uncle Jose asks, smiling.

“If what you’ve said is true and Ellie is your great-great-grandmother, then why does she look like my mother and aunt Elise?”

From what we were told, Ellie was an ancestor of my father, not my mother, but she favored my mother and aunt. How did that make any sense?

“That,” Uncle Jose chuckles, giving me a mischievous grin. “What if I told you that her twin sister became Luna of Emerald Moon after she disappeared?”

“What?” I gasp, eyes widening. “Then doesn’t that mean that my parents... They’re…”

At my words, a burst of laughter escapes Uncle Jose’s lips, but I can’t seem to find anything funny about what is happening.

“Jose,” Uncle William hisses, anger flashing in his eyes. “What the hell is wrong with