Ella Holden POV
“You killed your mother… and our father too!”
Ria shouted with a sharp, steady voice, standing in front of me without even blinking. I froze in shock.
“W… what?”
“It’s the truth, Ella,” Ria said again, her tone cutting like steel.
She lifted her chin, raising her voice with cruel confidence. “I planned their deaths long ago, inside my head. I just waited for you to grow up a little, so you wouldn’t be too much trouble for me.”
My throat tightened as I forced out a broken question, remembering the recorder was still running.
“What… what did you do to the car?”
Her posture shifted, cold and calm.
“I only disabled the brakes.”
A small gasp escaped me as she continued, her voice dripping with hate.
“I never pitied you, not for a single day, Ella. You deserve every ou
