All Chapters of The Woman I Became After You: Chapter 101 - Chapter 110

My mother stood in the doorway with a gun in her hand, and for several seconds nobody moved. I stared at her, trying to reconcile what I was seeing with the woman who had held me when I cried, the woman who had told me I was finally safe, the woman I had spent years believing would never hurt me. Yet here she was, standing in front of me with a weapon raised toward the room.I whispered the word mom, and her eyes softened instantly as she begged me not to make this any harder than it already was. Adrian stepped in front of me, and she raised the gun slightly and told him to move. He didn’t. He said she was frightening me, and she said she was trying to keep me alive. He told her to put the gun down, and she said she couldn’t.I stepped around him and asked her directly why she was holding a gun at all. Tears filled her eyes as she said they were coming, the council. I reminded her she had once told me she wasn’t working with them, and she said she had never actually said that. I told

The room dissolved into confusion. I looked toward the screen and found Sophie gone, the chair empty, the ropes lying discarded on the floor. My heart slammed against my chest as I called out her name. Adrian grabbed my hand and told me to stay with him, and I asked where she had gone. Jonathan was already moving toward the door, saying they had taken her through the passage. When I asked who, he said the council.Adrian’s mother suddenly looked terrified and said this wasn’t supposed to happen. I turned on her and reminded her she had claimed to control everything, and she admitted she had. I asked where Sophie was, then, and she had no answer. A second gunshot echoed from somewhere deeper in the house, and Adrian pulled me behind him and told everyone to stay down.Daniel and the officers who had followed us in secret rushed into the room, and the house filled with shouting as someone bolted across the hallway with Daniel chasing after him. I looked at Jonathan and reminded him he h

The chapel went silent as I looked at my father, waiting for him to deny it. He didn’t, and that frightened me more than anything else that had happened all night. I asked if he had created the council, and he lowered his weapon and said my name, asking me to listen. I told him no, to just tell me the truth, and he looked at my mother before finally admitting that he had created the first version of it.My chest tightened as I asked why, and he explained that our families had once been under attack by powerful people trying to take everything from them, and he had believed a council could protect everyone involved. I asked what had happened after that, and he said simply that power had changed them.Victor, still standing there with his mask removed, said it had changed my father specifically. I stared at him and asked who he was, and he confirmed himself as Victor. My heart stopped at the sight of him fully revealed, and Adrian said his name like an accusation. Victor looked at me an

I stared at Mrs. Williams as though I had forgotten how to breathe, repeating the word father barely above a whisper. She nodded and said the man I believed to be my father had never truly been who I thought. Adrian stepped forward and told her that was enough, but she looked at him calmly and said he deserved to know the truth as well. He told her he didn’t want her version of it, and she said then he should ask me.I turned toward Adrian, and he looked just as confused as I felt. I said my father had raised me, and Mrs. Williams smiled sadly and said raising a child didn’t always mean being their biological father. My heart began pounding as I shook my head and told her she was lying. She said she had expected me to say that, so I told her to prove it. She reached into her handbag and set a small envelope on the table, saying my mother had had it tested years earlier. I asked what it was, and she said a DNA report.My hands began shaking. Adrian moved closer and told me I didn’t hav

The river seemed to stop moving entirely. My father stood on the opposite bank with the gun pointed at his own chest, and I couldn’t process what I was seeing. Adrian gripped my arm tightly and called out for his dad to put the gun down. Richard looked at me and said he was sorry, and I asked for what. He said for making me live through another night like this.My grandmother stepped forward and begged him not to do this. He said he had spent twenty years running from them and simply couldn’t run anymore. I shouted that he didn’t have to die, and he looked at me sadly and said he knew. I told him then to come back, and his hand slowly began to lower.A gunshot rang out from the trees. Richard stumbled. I screamed as Adrian pulled me behind him while Daniel and Victor returned fire toward the woods. I called his name and ran toward him, dropping to the ground beside where he had fallen near the river. His eyes opened slowly, and he said he was all right. I told him he was bleeding, and