"Mother Lilith is not like that," Gabriella defended the woman. Lilith was her step mother and unlike all the fairytales stories where step mothers were bad and corrupt, Mother Lilith was kind to Gabriella. She had raised her like her own daughter and loved her so much that people would often think Gabriella was her own daughter.
Gabriella was the only child of her father and when she was ten, Lilith came into their lives. When he and her father met, they both had daughters. Gabriella's father had her while Lilith had Raphaela, a young aloof girl two years older than the Monteria heiress. And so when Lilit and Gabriella's father got married, Gabriella immediately got an older sister.
