Faux Vows, True Desires

"My baby..."

A soft whisper escaped Janice's lips, "My baby is gone, they took my baby from me."

Tears slid down her cheeks.

Ethan, heart aching, helped his mother sit down on the bed. He knelt before her, taking her hands in his, and said, "Mom, I promise you Lucy is safe. You just chill, no matter where she is in the world, I'll find her."

"Mom, can you snap out of it for a bit? If you can pull yourself together, I can go find Lucy."

Ethan had been sending people to search for Lucy, as he couldn't go himself for fear of leaving his mother vulnerable.

Janice stared blankly at him.

"Mom, I'm Ethan, your son, not Dad. Look at me clearly."

He thought his mother had come to her senses.

"Ethan...my son, yes, my son's name is Ethan, and my daughter's name is Lucinda. Honey, we had twins, our son looks like you, but our daughter looks like your mother, that's why your mom loved Lucy the most."

Ethan was stunned.

He always thought his sister and he looked alike. Hence, when searching for his sister, he looked for girls that resembled him.

Sometimes, they did find girls who looked like him.

But, even though they looked like him, DNA tests showed they were not his sister. They had no blood relation at all.

To protect them, they only had photos of them at one month and one hundred days old, no more pictures of his sister.

From the photos at one month and one hundred days, it was hard to tell anything.

Turns out, his sister took after their grandmother.

Ethan had seen photos of his grandmother when she was young.

She was incredibly beautiful.

his grandfather wouldn't have married and adored her

a pang in

even favored his uncle's family. And

Lucy have

memory, can't even remember your sister's features. Let me tell you, our Lucy has a mole the size of a green bean behind her left ear." "Lucy...Lucy is gone.

Janice grabbed Ethan's hand again,

"Mom."

but stood up and hugged his mother

His poor mother!

sake, he

she might still

Ethan a long time to

by a dream and couldn't fall asleep

room light is on and immediately came to knock on the

room light

from outside

door and threw herself into Stefan's

embraced her, not rushing to

her voice

his forehead against hers, whispered, "No, you didn't disturb me. I just happened to wake up and needed to use the restroom. I saw your room light on, so I came to check on you." Lucinda said,

his grandparents shared with him before they returned home. Someone had sent them a photo of Lucinda and George, with a note revealing that

This news surprised Stefan.

never thought to investigate her past or the fact

Moore, get too close to Lucinda, as they were

thinking

back to his room, both sitting on the

take it to heart. You're always thinking about this, so it's easy to

last time I had this dream I didn't pay much attention to it, I didn't keep thinking about it either, it just suddenly

didn't immediately tell Lucinda that she's not the biological daughter

dream might be related to her biological mother, maybe the woman in

between kin was very

it anymore,