Chapter 216

Lauren's POV

“Hold on, you just said we were in an orphanage?” I asked, my voice slow, like my mind was still trying to catch up with what she had just mentioned so casually.

“Yes,” Elizabeth replied, nodding once, her face as calm as if she had repeated this story a hundred times already.

“That means our biological parents, they’re…”

“They’re dead. According to my parents, the orphanage said they died in an accident. We were the only ones who survived.” Elizabeth cut me off before I could even finish the sentence.

I blinked as her words settled inside me, heavy and cold. My shoulders dropped slightly as I sank a bit into my chair, feeling the weight of that reality land on me. My gaze drifted down to the floor, not really focusing on anything in particular, just trying to absorb the