The next day at midnight, I walked into my parent's office using the skeleton key given by Gilda to unlock the door. There had to be some information about the orphanage in this room. I got the book from the bookshelf.
It was a diary from the head of The Woodhouse family. It told the history of Grace Field House and the way they used the organs of the children who lived there. Everything I saw in that secret room was true, it was not just a nightmare or something. I felt hopeless after reading it.
"So you found out the truth. Didn't you, Helia? No, I shall call you Emma. Our daughter’s imposter." My father stood in the door of his office. I didn't even notice when he appeared, and mother was standing beside him.
"We tried so hard to protect you from the truth so you would not get hurt from it. But sweetheart, why did you have to discover it? You would be much happier if you knew nothing and just died like this. Do you think we don't know that your little friends brought you to that room?"
They were not the parents I had known for these past two years. Their eyes were so cold and even bloodthirsty. Maybe it was their true self but I never knew it until that moment.
"Why did you make me your daughter but not just kill me when you brought me here? It would be the wisest choice if you had done that."
"Because you are necessary for our daughter Helia. She hasn't died yet. We need your heart for her survival. She has had heart problems since two years ago. We tried to find every child who lived in the Grace Field House, but there was not even one child that had a heart matched up with her blood type until we found you."
"When we knew that you and your friends were trying to escape the orphanage two years ago, we hired someone to capture you alive. There was a snowstorm at that time which made it even easier to capture you because you lost contact with your friends. You have the same appearance as our daughter, just like twins. We thought it would be a good idea to let you play Helia while she is absent with her heart problems. Her heart just can be replaced after you turn fifteen years old as that will give us the best quality of a heart."
"However, dear, we didn't mean to hurt you. We just wanted to take your heart to replace our daughter's heart. Let's think about it differently. You have to die before you turn sixteen years old. Why don't you die for Helia's sake now? We promise to give you a peaceful death. And you have had these delightful two years enjoying everything which would have belonged to Helia. It is your turn to pay back Helia with your heart. Are you willing to die for our daughter?" Mother said and gave her hands to me, waiting for me to hold her hands. There was craziness in their eyes.
Now I got it. It was all their idea and planning from the beginning. Their tenderness, kindness and love were not for me from the start.
I was an idiot. How could I desire their affection? To think I had been treated as their real daughter when there was not a place for me in this family. It seemed like everything that I had worked for the past two years with agonizing effort was meaningless. What were my past two years then?
"Haha…… So you never loved me." The perplexity in my heart was clear and I did not hesitate to do whatever I needed to do at that point.
Sorry, But I am not going to do what they want me to do. I knew that if I didn't kill them first, I would be the one who got killed. If that was their reasoning, then they had left me no choice but to kill them now.
I pretended I was going to hold my mother's hands, and I used my other hand to pull the trigger of my handgun the moment I touched her hands. That night, it was the first time I ever killed someone. I looked at their bodies coldly and left the room.
I was walking through the hallway in the direction of my room, but my step was unsteady due to what just happened.
"I knew you’d kill them. Ms.Emma." Mr. Winston put his back to the wall and said. "I figured out the truth about this family. Can you tell me who you really are now?" I said annoyingly.
Mr. Winston said, “I was going to tell you after you discovered the truth even though you didn't ask me. That's the reason I am here. My boss wants me to tell you something. He is waiting for you at the back door, please go there after we finish our talk. Nice to meet you, Emma. I am a spy who works for someone you have known for a long time. Winston is just my false name to make it easier to get in touch with you. People call me 'L'. "
"The real Winston got killed two years ago before the real Helia got sick, because he saw something he shouldn't have seen in that secret room. So I posed as him to get in touch with you at that reception. The intention of my mission was to lead you to the truth and protect you from danger. Now, my duties are done. Please let me say farewell. Then hopefully you'll never have to live for others in your life in the future."
He jumped from the window after saying this. No one was there when I tried to look out from the window.
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