Innocent me.... Episode 17
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Silence swallowed the room.
Ella shook her head repeatedly, stepping backward until her back hit a cold pillar. “No… that’s not true,” she whispered. “I’m not an experiment.”
Her father looked away, pain flashing across his face. Jayden, meanwhile, was staring at the files like they were poison.
The hooded man calmly picked up one of the documents and held it up.
“Project E-1 wasn’t meant to create a weapon,” he said. “It was meant to recreate a memory.”
Ella frowned through her tears. “What memory?”
The man hesitated for a moment before answering.
“A life that was lost.”
Jayden’s eyes darkened. “Ryan.”
The hooded man nodded slightly. “Your brother discovered the truth first. He found out what she really was… and what she was connected to.”
Ella’s breathing became uneven. “Stop saying that. I don’t understand any of this.”
Her father stepped forward quickly. “Ella, listen to me. You are my daughter. Not an experiment.”
But the hooded man interrupted again, his voice colder now. “That’s what he believes.”
He turned to Ella. “But you were chosen because of your connection to Ryan Cole… and because of what happened the night he ‘disappeared.’”
A sudden flash of lightning struck outside, lighting up the mansion.
And for a split second, Ella saw it clearly—
A younger version of herself standing in that same room… holding something in her hands.
Something glowing.
She gasped sharply. “I remember this place…”
Everyone froze.
Ella’s voice dropped to a whisper. “I was here before.”
Jayden stared at her. “When?”
Ella’s eyes filled with terror as the memory finally broke through.
“The night Ryan died… I didn’t just see it.”
A pause.
“I caused it.”
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