Chapter 5 - THE GIRL WHO REMEMBERED NOTHINGThat night, Clara sat beside Leo's crib.
The mansion was silent.
Leo slept peacefully.
Clara watched his tiny chest rise and fall.
She touched his forehead.
"I won't let anyone hurt you."
But Victoria's final words wouldn't leave her mind.
My sister.
Clara closed her eyes.
For years she had lived with fragments of memory.
A red scarf.
A woman's voice singing.
A little girl's hand holding hers.
A house surrounded by trees.
Then darkness.
She had been told her parents died when she was young.
She had believed it.
But now...
What if the story was a lie?
A sudden headache struck her.
Clara grabbed the edge of the crib.
And then she remembered something.
A girl's voice.
"Clara, promise you'll never leave me."
Victoria.
Clara opened her eyes.
Her heart raced.
"No..."
Another memory surfaced.
A woman screaming.
A car door slamming.
Rain.
Then someone pulling young Clara away.
She stumbled backward.
Julian found her moments later.
"Clara?"
She turned.
Her eyes were full of fear.
"I think Victoria was telling the truth."
Julian said nothing.
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Clara whispered:
"I think she is my sister."
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