Nora's POV

It couldn't be.

She shouldn't be alive.

Not that I didn't want her alive. After all, she had never been reported dead but since she hadn't been found all these days, it had been assumed that she had been kidnapped and murdered.

Wasn't that why her family had abandoned me? To save themselves the pain of watching and raising the one who let their daughter die.

I had had nightmares of her ghost and tormented myself with thoughts of her dead and looking for revenge that it was hard ...