Chapter 14

Elias POV

"What do you mean she wasn't my twin?" Mother, the most shocked I've ever seen, she looks so pale she might faint. "I ... I dont understand?".

Gran takes a seat in her armchair, as Grandfather stands behind it, still holding her shoulders, firmly, supportingly.

"When we were in the hospital and you had not long been born, I overheard the nurses talking about this young woman who died giving birth to a baby girl. I felt sad, of course but just tried to focus on you and how thankful I was that we were both okay, thinking the father or family of the woman would look after the baby and that was that" Gran wells with a tear. Placing her hand on her husbands. "Tom and I were taking a little strole to get me moving and as we passed the nursery we hear crying, but not a hungry cry or anything like that. It was a painfull, grieving cry. We stopped and gazed at this little thing howling, we couldn't look away. I knew that was the baby I heard the nurses talking about earlier.

I ask