Nora's Pov Amelia paused, her lips pursed. She then sighed and turned her head away, the whole place went silent. For a while, no one said a thing, I couldn't even breathe loudly for fear of angering her. If she had killed someone out of jealousy in the past, doesn't that mean she can do anything to me as well? She said I'm her daughter born from her own body, but that wasn't in my head. Not at all. I would go back to that later, however, asking me to hide a murder for her? That's crazy! “You know… If I get implicated by this, you also won't be spared.” Amelia started, her voice slow, eyes dark. The aura she emitted changed, it became darker and heavier, pressing down on me to the extent that I couldn't breathe. “M… Mom.” I choked, holding my chest, my heart beating frantically against my chest. Was this really Amelia? Her eyes flicked toward me, calculating, cold, and terrifying. This… This wasn't Amelia…! “Don’t call me that if you’re not going to act like it.” Amelia said, voi
Nora's Pov Amelia’s lips curled into something between a sneer and a smile, “Nothing?” She echoed, her tone sharp with bitterness, “You think it was nothing? Do you have any idea what it was like to live with Katherine’s shadow looming over me? She flaunted herself in front of Edward, made me feel like I was less than nothing in my own marriage. Do you know what that does to a person, Nora? Do you?”Her voice was trembling, but not with guilt, only with rage.“That doesn’t justify murder!” I cried, my chest heaving, “You had choices, you could have walked away, you could have left Edward…”“Left him?” Amelia’s eyes flashed, her laugh hollow and sharp like broken glass, “Just like the way you are letting Emelia off?” I froze at her words. Letting Emelia off? “Oh look at you, Nora. You aren't able to let Emelia off so why should I have let Katherine go Scot free after seducing Edward? I wasn’t going to let her take him from me. I wasn’t going to be discarded like trash, Nora. I had t
Nora's Pov “My twin sister, Amelia, is a murderer.” The man's voice echoed in my ears, even invading my brain as I stumbled backwards, my hands trembling. Did I hear wrongly? Was it the Amelia I knew that he was talking about? A murderer? Amelia has killed someone before? A million questions rang through my mind but there was not even one that I could answer. How was Amelia a murderer? Who did she kill? Why did she kill them? No… No matter what a person did, killing them was wrong. But… I had to know. I stepped forward once more, my hands reaching out to play the video. “Years ago, she had gotten married to Edward RedField, however, Edward was in love with…” The man's voice continued to sound in the very quiet room, and I was seated in front of the laptop, listening intently with my eyes wide open in shock. “…but Amelia could not accept being discarded. She was obsessed. And in her obsession, she killed Katherine Yule.”The man’s voice faded out, but its weight lingered, suffocatin
Nora's Pov It's been three days since Amelia's last outburst and throughout, I've been thinking about something. The man in that picture, I realised that since he really looks like Amelia, could it really be her relative? But if he is, why is he in prison and why did she react like that when I asked her about him? Something was happening and I wanted to know why. So I went to Amelia's room. I shut the door quietly behind me, my pulse already racing. Every step I took into her room felt like trespassing into a predator’s den. The curtains were drawn neatly, her desk organized down to the millimeter, her wardrobe shut with military precision. No one lived like this. Not unless they were hiding something.I sucked in a breath and whispered to myself, “Okay, Nora. You only have a few minutes before she comes back home.”Then I started tearing the place apart.I yanked open drawers, tossed aside neatly folded clothes, pulled down books from the shelf and flipped through their pages. Ther
Emelia’s Pov “Are we going somewhere?” I asked, shifting in my seat when his eyes lingered on me longer than necessary.“Yes.” Kaidon’s reply was crisp, measured, “Liam won’t be home for the next few days. You’ll stay with me during that time.”I froze, my fingers curling around the hem of my skirt before the words slipped past my lips in a low mutter, “Shit. You’ve got to be kidding me.”Kaidon’s head tilted, his eyes narrowing faintly, “What was that?”I forced a breath through my teeth, “Nothing.”“No.” His voice cut through the air, deceptively soft but laced with an edge, “You were cursing under your breath. Why?”Heat shot up my neck, “Because you don’t have to take care of me,” I snapped, meeting his gaze with all the stubbornness I could muster. If this guy makes me sleep in his voice, won't he realise what I'm going to do with Amelia? He'll stop me before I can even do it! “I can take care of myself.”One of his brows arched slowly, dangerously. For a second I thought he m
Emelia’s Pov I crossed my arms tighter, biting back the smile that wanted to break through, “One of these days, Kevin, you’ll regret every word you just said.”Kevin only smirked, as if daring me, “Can’t wait to see it.”Before I could give a proper retort, his phone vibrated on the desk. The sudden shift in atmosphere made me pause. He glanced at the caller ID, his teasing expression hardening instantly. He swiped to answer.“Speak.” Kevin ordered, his tone all steel now.The voice on the other end crackled faintly but was firm, “Sir, we’ve confirmed everything. The story checks out. There was a couple in the family, a pair from the second branch. They were murdered years ago, and their infant went missing. It caused an uproar at the time, but the second branch buried it quickly. Covered it up before it could reach the main line.”Kevin’s eyes darkened, his grip on the phone tightening, “And the child?”“Never found.” The voice replied, “Until now. Everything matches. It’s true.”“T