LAUREN'S POV

“Hold on, you just said we were in an orphanage?” I asked, my voice slow, like my mind was still trying to catch up with what she had just mentioned so casually.

“Yes,” Elizabeth replied, nodding once, her face as calm as if she had repeated this story a hundred times already.

“That means our biological parents, they’re…”

“They’re dead. According to my parents, the orphanage said they died in an accident. We were the only ones who survived.” Elizabeth cut ...