Chapter 41. Who Really Am I?

Alison’s POV

The room was suffocatingly silent, broken only by the faint rustle of the curtains against the early morning breeze. My phone buzzed on the nightstand, the vibration jarring in the quiet. I ignored it at first, letting the sound fade into the background. But it buzzed again. And again.

Sitting up, I grabbed it with a sigh, my heart still heavy from the events of the day before. Xander’s voice, filled with doubt, echoed in my head. “I don’t know who to believe anymore.” The betrayal in his eyes as he chose Caitlyn over me felt like a dagger twisting deeper with every memory.

The screen lit up showing a series of text messages from a number I’d memorized by now. Kendrick.

“You don’t belong there.”

“You belong to me, come back and I will show you your family.”

“The whole story about you being an orphan is a lie, my father told me where you came from before he died.”

My stomach tightened. Kendrick had been reaching out sporad