Chapter 16: Feeling Incomplete

I still can't get over what Marcus told me yesterday. I tried to get it out of my mind but it also tried to push me and remind me about it. Should I really know myself? There's a saying that you only know yourself if you know where you come from, but in my situation, should I?

"Trina, don't you really know anything about Father Trevor and Mother Viola adopting me?"

Trina frowned with astonishment on her face at what I had asked her as if she did not expect me to ask. She thought, her head tilted slightly. "That's all I know, Syrie. That they found you in the woods where your parents left you," she replied.

That was also the story I knew then. According to Mother Viola, they used to travel to the middle of the forest back to the mansion. They said they came from somewhere in the woods when they heard a baby crying not far from them. They immediately looked for it and they found a baby in a basket. I was wrapped in a thick