After Elena left Evelyn's room, Evelyn heads towards Arthur's painting and pulls it done revealing a biometric safe. She opens the safe bringing out a black folder titled, 'ELENA BRIDGES', she opens the folder.
' Let's see the truth your eyes keeps hiding,' Evelyn murmured, her voice all business. She flipped past the cursory details about her schools and work document that mattered. The page was worn from handling. She see an old article from a news paper.
†CAR EXPLODES ON BRIDGE STREET; 4-YEARS-OLD GIRL PRESUMED DEAD, REMAINS NOT RECOVERED
A vice seized her chest. The room tilted. She sees strange images, blinding lights. The folder slipped from her trembling hands, papers scattering like ash. Gasping, she stumbled to the nightstand, yanked the drawer open, and fumbled for the orange bottle.
She dry swallowed two pills, the chalky bitterness a familiar punishment. As the chemical fog dragged her under, the last conscious whisper in her mind wasn't her own. It was Elena's voice, tender and sad, saying the name that haunted them both: "Anne..."
★★Meanwhile ★★
A fist pounded on Elena door, she opens saying,' Evelyn, did you forget something....,' she looks up and sees Lucas.
'Lucas', she says grabbing him inside.
'Where have you been?' She asked, he ignored heading straight for the bed, falls down flat, faced buried in the duvet, his voice muffled, 'well played, Dad'.
Elena heartbroken walks to the bed, covering him with a blanket. She sits next to him patting his defeated form to sleep.
She could barely sleep, her mind divided into two, Lucas defeats and Evelyn..., Elena grabs her phone as she calls someone, 'Hello Silas, I want all the information I can get on Evelyn Blackwood, focus on the years before Arthur adopts her,' she said in a calm whisper backing Lucas 'Send it to my email by tomorrow morning', she says as she cuts the call in a rush.
She was in too deep to back out now, she thought. Her curiosity was leading the way to the truth, She gets up from the bed heading to the restroom. Lucas, who seems to have overheard Elena conversation on the phone, gets up from the bed, grabs his phone and sends a chat to victor, 'Bring the board members tomorrow morning, we need to take care of Evelyn, permanently'. He deletes the chat after a while and lays down back wondering why Elena was so interested in Evelyn.
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It's a brand new day, the sun shines bright reflecting its rays on the Blackwood's mansion, Everyone's down stairs waiting for breakfast, except Evelyn. Elena worried heads up to check on her, she knock calmly on the door but no reply, she tries again and still no response.
Anxious she pushes the door open, her eyes glued at the sight of Evelyn cuddling her big soft pillow, she goes over to her bed looking at her perfect closed eyes, she turns to head out when she hears Evelyn voice, 'Morning, Elena', she says getting up from her bed.
' You came to check up on your little sis', Evelyn says as she grabs a glass of water from the night stand.
Elena smiles saying, 'of course love'.
'By the way breakfast will soon be served', Elena continues. Evelyn walks into her closet saying, ' okay then, I will be down soon'.
Some thing felt off, Elena thought. As she's about to leave the room, she spots an old news article under Evelyn bed, she bends down picking it up, her eyes glued to the article heading,
†CAR EXPLODES ON BRIDGE STREET; 4 YEAR OLD GIRL PRESUMED DEAD, REMAINS NOT FOUND †
What's this doing under Evelyn's bed, she thought. She walks out of the room hiding the news article under her arms.
Evelyn still feeling drowsy, turns on the sinks tap and splashes water on her face. 'Why can't I control it, anymore', she thought looking at her reflection in the mirror. 'What's wrong with me!!?', she says out loud. 'Why can't I read Elena's mind', she says bowing her head facing the sink. 'She has a familiar scent, it annoys me!!!!,' she yells smashing her hand on the mirror, blood dripping.
'I will complete my task, regardless ,' She says switches off the tap, blood covers the entire sinks surface. She heads out to her room, loosing sight, she falls down gasping for air, her hands stretched to the nightstand, the voices in her head loud and clear, 'Don't let Go, Anne!!.'
Breakfast has been served, Lucas and Elena are seated having breakfast, when Victor and the rest of the board members walks in.
'Good morning, everyone,' Victor says as he sits on the well polished leather chair. Elena gets up and says, ' Morning, what's brings you all here .'
'I called them here,' Lucas says still seated.
'Please tell the maids to get more food, we have guests,' he says to Elena. She heads to the kitchen.
'Where is Evelyn,' Maxwell asked looking round, Victor turns to him saying,'Why should we care, we are here to see Lucas'.
The maids sets the table for the board members, they all head over eating and discussing business deals. Elena listen to their conversation wondering what was going on in their head, Lucas, who was a total mess yesterday is having breakfast with the board members, what is he up to, she thought. Elena lost in thought tries to grab a glass of water when a loud scream comes from upstairs, what's going on, she thoughts.
It was Nelly, the head of maids, she had gone up to give Evelyn her breakfast when she saw her lying on the carpet with blood dripping from her hands. Elena runs upstairs heading towards the scream, It was coming from Evelyn room, her hands trembling as she walks in, she spots blood on the door knob
Her eyes stuck on the sight of Evelyn lying down lifeless, her eyes filled With tears as she yells Lucas.
' Evelyn! Evelyn!! Open your eyes,' Elena yells shaking Evelyn, blood drips from Evelyn hand down to the carpet.
Lucas runs upstairs With the board members, all shocked with the sight of Evelyn. 'Call the ambulance!', Elena yells at Lucas. 'No!', Victor says. 'We can't have the press talk about this, our stock values are dropping low, we can't have it go any lower', He continues.
'Are you mad or what my si.....Evelyn is lying down lifeless and your worried about stocks', Elena yells at Victor.
'Elena calm down, he is right, he is also protecting Evelyn', Lucas says trying to calm her down, ' I will call a doctor', he continues as he lifts her up and lays her on the bed.
Thirty minutes later, the doctor arrives, Lucas takes him up to Evelyn room. Elena is seated besides her holding her hands, Lucas shocked,'what's up with Elena', he thought.
The doctor examines Evelyn, he orders Elena to be taken outside. Lucas drags her outside and shuts the door in front of them, ' Elena, what's up with you lately,' Lucas asked. She ignores the question, 'she was fine this morning', Elena says bowing her head disbelief. 'What are you saying, Elena', Lucas asked confused, 'What's this new obsession with Evelyn,' he continues.
'Please Lucas, all I want is Evelyn better right now, then we can talk', she says walking away. Lucas surprised with the way she spoke back to him, 'I will have to find out what's going on between Evelyn and Elena', he says to himself.
The board members all seated down in the living room, silence spoke for a while until Victor spoke up, 'If anything happens to Evelyn, we make Lucas the successor'.
'Are you crazy, Evelyn is fight for her life in there and you are here saying this nonsense,' Maxwell says.
'He just speaking the truth, we have to plan ahead of time', Carol says scrolling through her phone. 'Our stock values can't go lower because of Evelyn unforeseen death', she continues.
'I assure you, Evelyn is not dying anytime soon,' Marcus says as he enters.
'Sorry to ease drop, but Evelyn is much stronger than she looks, so just focus on the public announcement,' he continues.
'You did not see what we saw, she was covered With blood,' Carol says looking into his eyes.
Marcus trying to control himself, 'Focus on your jobs, and stop spreading rumors,' he says harshly as he heads upstairs.
It was already late and the board members had already gone, Elena stood outside Evelyn's room waiting for the doctor to open the door. She was lost trying to figure out what happened. The doctor opens the door ready to leave, 'what happened to her?', Elena asked, 'it appears she had series of panic attack and has been taking heavy medication, it became too much to for her system to handle' he says.
' I find difficult to believe that she takes such heavy medication at this young age, I will let you know about any other thing after we conclude the series of test', He says heading downstairs. Elena runs inside looking at Evelyn lying down on her bed, so weak, she could feel her pain.
'What have they done to her,' she thought.
Marcus who over heard Elena and the Doctor's conversation, pulls out his phone from his pocket, calls someone saying, 'Evelyn orders a well thorough investigation on Elena and reduce the dosage of the medication, we can't lose Evelyn at such a crucial time, He says as he heads downstairs.
Its late in the night, Evelyn is running, scared, breathless. Her eyes focused on escaping, she pauses and looks around. Everywhere was dark, she moves forward to a car, that appears out of nowhere, 'Hello', she says confused.
She moves forward looking through the car's window, her eyes stuck on the little girl,
'Help me', the girl says. Evelyn tries to open the door but its locked, she hits her hands on window trying to break it open. 'Hold on.....'
BAM!, she was hit in the head, blood dripping as she on verge of loosing consciousness, 'Grab the girl,' a man says breaking the window.
'No!!!!', the little girl screams as they drag her out of the car. Evelyn tries to get up, 'hey!!!, leave her alone,' she says using her last drop of energy as she falls back down.
Her eyes shutting when a deep familiar voice, calls out to her. 'Evelyn, get up, you are not weak. You are my pride, don't loose to anyone'.
Evelyn eyes opens just to find herself in her room laying next to Elena, she grabs her phone from the night stand, switches it on,
'23:47pm'.
What's happened to me, she thought rubbing her palm on her head when she noticed bandages on her palm. Her mind begins to recall her panic attack. She sits down on her bed scheming her next plan,'I can't believe I showed them my weakness, no worries, they won't see me coming', She says as she turns to Elena.
'I wonder why she's hovering around me,'
'I will need to figure out why my memories are attached to hers,' she says lying down watching Elena sleep.