Emily woke up in her bed a few hours later to the feeling of something wet on her head. She looked up to see Alex standing next to her with a warm wash cloth cleaning her forehead "What happened?" She asked scared, "How long was I out?" Alex turned to her friend sporting a black eye and bruised cheek.
"A couple hours" she answered knowing it was time to tell her best friends what Cody had learned "Dallas gave you quite a beating, I got this for getting involved but your stomach doesn't appear to be bruised so I think the baby is okay" she said putting the washcloth in the water basin and turned back to Emily "I brought you upstairs and cleaned up your head and arms, can't do anything about the bruises though sorry" She said sadly helping her friend sit up
"Did I miss school" Emily asked her mind reeling about how Dallas could do this to her. He loved her didn't he.
"Yea but your aunt called them giving you and excuse we need to talk about somethings today" Alex told her. Rachel came in and sat on the end of the bed a box in her hand.
"Whats going on" Emily was scared, everything was out of control.
"Well I can start with this" Rachel said handing her the box "You may not remember this but it was yours before the fire" She handed her the box. Emily opened to find a beautiful silver locket(picture) she opened it to see a picture on one side and a quote on the other
"Life is tough but my daughter so are you" Emily read out loud then examined the picture. It was aunt next to a man who had the same brown hair as her and a small child no more than 3 in their arms smiling and giggling. " Who is this" She asked, fear beginning to leak into her voice.
"It's you and your parents" Rachel told her. Emily felt her world spinning, there was just no way that was possible. "More specifically... I'm not your aunt I am your mother" she said fear lacing her own voice. "When you were three your father died in a house fire, you were in a coma for three weeks and the doctors didn't know when you would wake up. I ended up getting addicted to my pain medication so I gave custody of you to my sister" She stopped for a moment then forced herself to keep going. "When everyone died in the fire I knew I had to find you but you still had Cody and I wasn't ready to pull you back into my crazy life" She stopped and let Alex speak
"Cody found out the truth last year when he got a call from the bank asking if he wanted to close an account. It was an account for twenty billion dollars. He set things up to where he could met the person who made the account and find out why you and him were the one's supposed to inherit it" Alex stopped and placed a hand on her stomach, the pain of Cody not being there was crushing her but she continued "He told me he had found your birth mom in a rehab facility and that she wanted to know you, that's when he found out about my father" Alex stopped and Emily asked the question she was dieing to know
"Is your father the man who killed my family" She asked her heart breaking. Rachel answered a bit scared
"Yes and No. He set the fire to your home, it was set up by your parents and I that if anything happened to them and you that Richard would get the money. A secret that only his eleven year old son knew about. Rich died in the fire because he trapped himself so his son decided to track down the daugher who was supposed to get the money and marry her"
"Why" Emily was now very afraid and reach down to touch her own stomach "Why would he do that"
"He is greedy his father raised him that way. Cody found out when Alex went to him and confided that Dallas was beating her" Rachel looked and the girl whose secret she just shared and continued "For him to get the money he had to marry the women and she would have to either sign it over or die for him to get it" Alex cut her off
"That's why Cody made a clause in the account that if you get pregnant Dallas can't touch that money" With that Emily felt her whole world disappear into insanity
YOU ARE READING
The Hunt
RomanceEmily Wilson is a 16 year old orphan and theft with her brother Cody their parents died when they were 9 and they've been on the streets since 12, but now with the truth of her parents deaths coming to surface and even more frightening truths of her...
