Chapter 6 - THE PERSON WHO WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO RETURN

Clara knew something was wrong the moment she saw my face.

“What did he say?”

I looked at her.

“He said my mother wasn’t the only person he locked away.”

Her expression changed.

Like she already understood.

“Clara…”

She slowly sat down.

“There was someone else.”

“Who?”

She looked at the floor.

“Your grandfather.”

I felt the room spin.

“My grandfather died before I was born.”

Clara shook her head.

“That’s what everyone was told.”

Another lie.

Another secret.

“How many people did Arthur destroy?”

Clara didn’t answer.

Because she didn’t need to.

The answer was obvious.

Too many.

We returned to the Blackwood estate that afternoon.

But something was different.

The gates were open.

The guards were gone.

The house was silent.

Too silent.

I walked inside carefully.

Then I saw it.

A picture frame on the floor.

Broken glass everywhere.

Someone had searched the mansion.

“They were looking for something,” Clara whispered.

I walked toward my father’s study.

The safe was open.

The documents inside were missing.

Except one thing.

A single envelope.

I picked it up.

No name.

No address.

Only one sentence.

If Arthur knows you found the truth, run.

My stomach tightened.

Then a sound came from behind me.

A woman’s voice.

“Vincent.”

I turned around.

And everything stopped.

An elderly woman stood in the doorway.

Her eyes were full of tears.

Her face was older.

But I knew her.

I had seen her face thousands of times.

In old family photos.

In my childhood memories.

In the dreams I barely remembered.

“Mom?”

The woman covered her mouth.

After thirty years...

She whispered my name.

“Vincent.”

I couldn’t move.

I couldn’t speak.

The woman who everyone said was dead was standing in front of me.

Alive.

My mother walked toward me slowly.

And the first thing she said destroyed me.

“I’m sorry I left you.”

Tears filled my eyes.

“You didn’t leave me.”

She shook her head.

“No.”

Her voice broke.

“They made me disappear.”

Then she looked past me.

Toward the mansion.

Toward the life I had known.

“Arthur is not trying to hide the past anymore.”

She grabbed my hand.

“He’s trying to erase the future.”

Before I could ask what she meant, the lights went out.

A loud crash came from upstairs.

Then Clara screamed.

“Vincent!”

I ran toward the sound.

And when I reached the room…

I saw something that changed everything.

Arthur was standing there.

Holding a gun.

And beside him was the one person I never expected to see.

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