Diary,
I felt my legs fail me as I fell to my knees.
"B-but how's this possible?" Ray asked. He looked equally perplexed.
"How can your mum be in the same picture with Kyros?!" Lissa asked as I took the book from her and kept turning the pages. Maybe there was another picture that would bring us closer to finding the truth.
"San wait!" Tony held my hand when I didn't stop.
"Look." He said simply, releasing my hand. I looked down at the book and saw a picture...a wedding picture!
"W-who's getting m-married?!" Ray asked, alarmed.
We looked closer and I saw Kyros in an extremely expensive suit, with a man standing beside him, whom i supposed was his best man and two elderly parents and...
"Wait, this was the former vice president of Ravenshire...and his wife too! Mr Damon-" Lissa said, wide-eyed as Ray interrupted her.
"Bronson! Does that mean that Kyros is the vice president's son?" He asked.
"Possibly. But who's the lady? And who are the people standing beside her?" Tony asked.
We all peered closer into the picture...
"Those people look like national ambassadors of Groundane.." Anaia said, frowning slightly.
"A-and this is mom?!" Ray said in alarm as we hadn't recognized her earlier because of the veil that covered her face. My hands felt like rubber as the book fell to the floor.
M...mom?
I felt my head spinning as I battled with the whirlwind of emotions that threatened to overwhelm me.
"S-so there's a possibility that Kyros may be your-"
"Don't say it." Ray said in a low growl.
Ray's expression looked grim, Tony looked unsettled, Lissa looked scared, Anaia looked confused.
How did I look?
I don't know...
The pain was suffocating, making it hard for me to breathe. I felt like i was drowning in a sea of hurt and anger, with no lifeline in sight. How could my own mother do this to me, to us? Didn't she love us? Didn't she care?
As the tears streamed down my face, I knew that I had to confront my mum, to demand answers and closure. But a part of me was terrified of what I might discover, of the secrets that might still be hidden. Was i ready to face the truth about my mum, and about myself, about Ray and I ?
"Ahh!" I flung the book across the room.
"San-" Lissa gasped as they rushed to my side.
"No, how could she do this to us?! She had always been my role model, my confidante- my everything! I thought I could trust her..." i cried as Anaia held me close to her chest and Ray held my hand- a gesture that he always made to calm me down.
"It's okay, San-" he started.
"No! It's not okay! Ray, I literally worshipped that woman! She was our everything- especially since we knew close to nothing about our father." Ray patted my hand further, as I buried my face in Anaia's cloth and wailed.
"I still can't believe this! I feel like I'm losing it... and to think that she hasn't come looking for us since Brookville's destruction. I mean, shouldn't she have known this?" Ray asked.
"Hmm do you remember Kyros saying something about luring her back here?" Tony asked thoughtfully as I wiped my face and Ray's expression fell.
"And he also mentioned something about sending pictures to her..." Lissa added.
"But that means she knows! But why would she have to be lured before she comes here? So she know's we're being held in captivity here..." Ray said, fuming.
"I never knew our own mother would betray us like this." Ray gritted through his teeth as I shuddered at the way his words dripped with hurt, anger and malice.
Tony placed a comforting hand on Ray's shoulder and said a word of prayer silently as Anaia stroked my hair fondly.g
I was never prepared for the series of events that would follow...