Chapter Seventy: Find Me

GINA’S POV

Praya’s mother’s words still lingered in my thoughts and I couldn’t just stop thinking about it. Her last words to me before she left haunted me.

As I knelt by Praya’s resting place, I found comfort as I spoke to her, as if she were still beside me. I could feel her presence enveloping me, radiating warmth over my heart. It brought me to tears when I realized she was never going to be there.

Praya’s mother had suddenly caught my attention when she knelt beside her.

“Praya wasn’t my biological daughter.”

Those were her first words and they hung in the air surrounding us. I turned to look at her, trying to conceal the surprise etched on my face. I didn’t speak, I just waited for her to keep talking.

“Her late father found her by a lake, without any clues about who might have left her there.”

A wave of shock surged through me. Could it be the same lake where we spent time together? Had that been her origin all along?

That would explain why she was so drawn to it.

I had so man