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The Unforgivable

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"What was so important that you felt the need to call me out here?" I asked Casey. He had called me yelling me half to death about how he found something on Isabella, so I quickly left without a second thought. Stopping now only made me realize that she was alone with my family and I couldn't feel more stupid.

If she happened onto Yuily or Lucius it'd be almost game over.

Casey stood there panting as if he's the one who ran over a mile to get here when literally he did was run up from the basement and into the study. His eyes widened when he looked at me and he smiled, "I found something out about her!"

"Yes. That's what you said over the phone. But what the fuck is it that you couldn't just let me know while I was there?"

He motioned towards everything on my desk, "I can't believe I didn't connect the dots before. Before the first big war, when succubus was being hunted and kidnapped by the masses, I did some digging about it... There was this succubus named Camilla, she got brought into questioning because of how close she was to humans and werewolves. You were a young boy at the time, but... Your father never took action because she had a little girl with her."

"Well? Did you bring me here to tell me that? Are you trying to say that was Isabella? That's a bit far-fetched don't you think?"

"That's not all, let me finish! Shortly after most of the succubus died out, Camilla was brought back into questioning because she'd been the only one to survive her entire species being brutally murdered. Even the little girl from before wasn't with her this time."

They wanted someone to become a scapegoat for the killings, although everyone knows that the vampires were partially to blame as well. But who better to use than someone who'd been cozy with the humans already. Your father put her on trial for the murder of over half of her species and found her guilty before she could even say a single word about it. It was forbidden to ever talk about, and barely anyone knows about it because it was completely ineffective."

"What happened to her? Camilla...? And her daughter? It still doesn't prove that it was Isabella or her mother." I asked what happened to her, but I already knew the answer because I knew the type of person my dad was.

He picked up what looked like an old journal off the table ad flipped to the bookmarked page, he cleared his throat and skimmed through the pages before closing it again.

"She had a horrible death. They fed her to the pigs. Not literally but, she was forced to serve your father's army for some time... and I think you know I don't mean serve... Eventually, she was executed, of course under false accusations. I believe it's Isabella's mother because right before she died, in her last words she looked at your father and said "Isabella is still alive, we will all live on in her."

I cut him off and stood up from my chair, making him jump up. "And tell me why the fuck am I just now hearing about this? And why the hell you didn't start with that?"

He handed the book over towards me and sighed, "This belonged to your father, I was cleaning out the library when I found it in a stack of old books. I'm sure you had it but never read it. They're... His confessions of some sort, there's even a page dedicated to your mother, but the one I've just summarized was dedicated to someone named Camilla."

I flipped through the pages and frowned, "How doesn't anyone know about this? Lucius or Theo...? They had to know something about it.

He shook his head, "After his plan initially failed, he kept everything under tight wraps, I'm sure he either messed with some people's head to cover it up or even went far as to kill some people."

So my father was responsible for her mother's death? If she figured that out...no, she doesn't even believe that was her mother.

"About Isabella..."He began, tapping his fingers on the desk, I closed the Journal and placed it in my coat pocket, I had to read this later.

"It wasn't easy to find any information about her actually but, there is one report about a little girl murdering over a dozen human soldiers in a bar after they tried... well raping her. The reports weren't really specific and it was old but, a witness reported her as somehow terrifyingly beautiful. She resembled a devil and she had, tails horns, etc... This didn't become a bigger case because, around that time humans began to stop believing in our existence so, the few that did were considered crazy. Some man was charged with their murders but it's said that there were multiple reports about the same girl in other places. It's eerily similar to Isabella's dream no?"

"So what happened to her?"

"Well, there wasn't anything more on that so I started looking into her mother... Her human mother and I found out that Isabella was adopted by her when she was around nine years old. I tried going to ask her about it... But she started acting all hysterical claiming she never met anyone named Isabella in her life. Weirdly enough she had a completely different family from what I remember. Husband and a daughter."

"You think she's faking it?"

"I don't think so, I know she is. Since Isabella was never human it means she never really died to begin with, which means you never really brought her back to life, which means that there's no way her mother's memory could've been erased. She's pretending because she wants to hide something."

My eyes widened and he nodded waving his hand at me to relax, " There's more. It wasn't very strong but, I sensed something in her mother. I think she's a witch, but she's trying to keep it undercover. If a witch tampered with her memories then, it would explain how Isabella doesn't remember anything, and it's especially easy to do it, someone, at a young age."

He sighed and continued, "Just until a few years ago, her mother's name was Helena but she changed it to Cassandra after adopting Isabella. Sounds close to Camilla right? Get this though, she's changed it multiple times before, honestly, I even wonder how old she really is. Her records date back a while, she might be using something to stop herself from aging. Anyways she has a family apparently and recently she's changed back to her old name. Also, she had always been considered poor before but received a large sum of money after adopting Isabella."

"I can't say it's for sure but... My theory is that whoever was meant to care for Isabella left her in the care of Helena, and paid her to take care of her and temper with her memories so she'd think that she was her real mother- So she grew up thinking she was human and believing that lie. I'm sure her mothe- Helena had to continuously brainwash her but, now that Isabella is legally considered dead, she's free from that and back with her real family."

"I can't believe this. What the hell?" I buried my head in my hands and pulled at my hair, how the fuck was I going to tell her all of that?

"It's not like you to react like that. You don't need to tell her..."

"Like hell, I don't! If I don't tell her then what do you think will happen when she finally figures out the truth? Everything will go out the window. I can't have this shit fucking up my plan, and I can't have her any less broken than she already is, not about this."

"Isn't that what you wanted?" He asked, slowly backing away from me, and I scowled at him.

"You must not know how much I hate liars. Do you think I'm going to cover up some shit that my dad did when he did the same thing to my mother? It's true yes, I want to break her, but not like that. Believe it or not, I actually have a heart, and I have fucking standards, I wouldn't stoop that low. That shit is unforgivable."

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And so now y'all know Isabella is much older than her original stated age in the beginning of the book. For all y'all coming at me saying she's too young 🙄 I told you I made it that for a reason.