Chapter Fifty-Seven
Ana
I staggered backward a few paces, my limbs trembling so violently that it felt as if my knees were about to completely buckle beneath me. My biological mother. She was actually alive.
The familiar, mature voice continued to hum slightly through the speaker of the cell phone, but before I could process another single word, Lily lunged forward. She grabbed the device out of Desmond's hands and aggressively ended the call, cutting the audio connection completely. She spun around to face me, her eyes flashing with absolute protective worry as she begged me not to listen to a single word coming out of his mouth. She argued that Desmond was a desperate man who would easily do whatever underhanded thing it took just to manipulate my feelings and force me to go back to
