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"No Hugh, I never did!" Loren cried, her head was spinning too fast for her mind to think properly. "After the fire I was so badly injured that I ended up losing my memories. I lived without a clue of who I was for so many years, until recently when my memories began coming back bit by bit and by the time I went looking for you and your sister it was already too late.. you were gone.." Loren was sobbing now. The joy of finding her son after so long climaxed with the pain of knowing that she had betrayed him. What mother lost memory of her own children. She had hated herself ever since her memories came back but somehow she had tried to pick up the pieces of herself left and put them back together for Mira's sake. This was why her world had fallen apart when Mira disappeared. She thought she had lost three children and the pain? It was too much for one soul to bear.

"Mum?"

Mother and son's attention quickly went back to the other person present. Mira.

Hugh's eye widened at the realiz