Chapter 26; Do it, I dare you

Coraline's POV

"I'm so sorry, I didn't know I said that out loud."

" It's fine, you deserved to know." He waved me off and continued to look at the pictures.

"Lina, my daughter, fell into the wrong crowd when she was a teenager, a good-for-nothing named Marvin knocked her up. Her mother and I begged her to stay with us so that we could help her but she was too obsessed with Marvin and she didn't want to leave him. We asked her to give us Elijah but she also refused. She and Marvin had a toxic and combustive relationship that I knew was one day going to kill them and it did but I found out about her death too late because they moved to another state, and changed their names so when they died, child services couldn't find any next of kin to take in Elijah so they put him in foster care. He…he had a horrible time there before I found him and brought him home."

Simon took the picture of him and Elijah off the wall and traced his finger on the glass.

Damn, I always assumed Elijah wa