Chapter 123

Lola's POV

All air left me and I sat back in my chair with a sigh. I knew we were dealing with a psychopath, but I did not know she was so unhinged that she killed her own mother.

"When I saw that she killed Mother, I stabbed her through the heart with a poisonous stake, and that was how I killed her," she said, and we all looked at her wide-eyed. She must have thought we were judging her because she held her head and started muttering herself.

"I never wanted to hurt her, I swear. I wasn't going to kill her. I just couldn't stop myself as I drove the stake through her heart. She fell before me, she did. I watched her take her last breath as her blood spurted from her chest and drenched me. She looked me in the eyes and tried to wrench herself from me, but I kept the stake inside her as her blood drained from her body and pooled at our feet." She hiccuped and tried to curl into herself like it could make her escape the memories plaguing her.

I moved closer an