Chapter thirteen

Serena stood in the garden alone in the dark. Her thoughts were running wild with and of how to take care of her enemies. They had done so much to her before, punished her when her mistake was trusting the wrong people.

As she strolled through the garden, her eyes glimmered under the moonlight. The fire that burnt within her heart didn't allow her to rest. Her hands itched with the need to get even with them.

Starting with her sister, she needed to get Sofia out of her life once and for all. She had successfully begun to turn her mother against the witch. But the girl was a sly snake that could turn the tables any time if she wasn't taken care of immediately.

"Ah," Serena yelped surprised.

"You sly fox," Sofia uttered appearing right before her angrily.

Serena stared at her composing herself. Her heart tightened, once upon a time she loved the girl before her. She loved Sofia like her sister and did everything to please the girl and she got killed for her love.

A mistake that wasn't going to have a repeated. This time, they would be the ones bleeding and dying because of her.

"You played games since morning. All to get Damian," she claimed.

Serena stood her ground unfazed by her accusation. She had only taken what belonged to her and didn't feel the need to explain that.

"You aren't as innocent as you look," Sofia said in frustration. "You lied and tricked mom because you are selfish," she added.

Serena remained silent letting her say whatever she wanted. It pleased her to see Sofia so frustrated.

"I will get everything back. You haven't won just yet," Sofia challenged.

Serena raised her eyebrows at her. Taken aback by her showing her true colors so soon. In the past, she had not seen this side of the woman until she died.

She stepped forward closing the distance between her and Sofia. Gazing at her stepsister up close made her nerves tingle. She wished to give her a well-deserved slap across the face.

"My mother, my inheritance, and my fiancee," she started to say. Putting intensity in her words for it to sink into the girl that everything wasn't hers, to begin with. "However I choose to handle all of the above depends on me and me alone."

Sofia looked distraught on listening to what she had to say. Serena wore a satisfied smile on her face.

"You think that you are smart. I'll show you.."

Sofia marched forward and raised her hand to hit Serena. Serena remained still and let the slap land on her cheek. She moved back holding her cheek with her right hand.

Her eyes darted to Sofia, she wore a confused and hurt expression on her face. Within no minute, tears began to stream down her eyes as she looked at her sister.

"W..why?"

Serena raised a question intentionally breaking her voice. To sound hurt. Sofia towered over her impressed with getting an upper hand on Serena. Finally, she felt like she could gain back control and take back everything that was snatched from her that night.

"You don't deserve to marry Damian or to get so much from grandma. You got everything and it's not because you are a good girl," she let out in anger. "It's because you stole what's mine," she added.

She spoke while walking towards Serena, Serena moved back from her folding her left hand into a fist. Stepping on a stone, she slipped and fell back.

"Arghh," Serena cried out on hitting the ground.

"Biologically speaking I have the right to everything..."

"You didn't even deserve to be born," Sofia uttered interrupting her. "So don't tell me what you have a right. You don't have a right to breathe the same oxygen as me let alone take everything from me."

Serena broke down into tears at her words. Sofia's lips curled up. The feeling of putting Serena in her place made her happy. Wiping the arrogant smile for Serena rekindled her ego.

"I had no idea you felt like that," Sofia and Serena heard from the distance.

Sofia turned around, her face went pale when she saw her mother, father, and grandmother standing right behind them. She was tongue-tied.

Serena hid her face in her hands and continued to cry. Increasing the sound of her crying on hearing her mother speak.

Ivy marched forward angered to the core. The things that she heard Sofia say about her daughter had hurt her deeply. She never expected to hear the girl speak such words.

"I told you the day you picked up this garbage that she was bad news," Betina uttered.

Sofia flinched hearing Betina call her garbage. It was a word that the woman used to call her in the past and she hated it.

Ivy froze hearing her mother-in-law's statement. Her eyes moved from Sofia to Serena. She never once distinguished between the two of them when she raised them. She treated them equally and now she was seeing her daughters in a new light.

Serena was always the trouble maker. With her boyfriend and best friend, she was unreasonable and had gone far from her. Ivy thought that it was because of a bad influence but she started to wonder if it was because of Sofia.

Sofia was always the obedient child who lived between the lines and never stepped out of bounds. A child that made her proud to be a mother and gave her comfort when Serena strayed from her.

But since the day began, she had seen a different side to both her daughters. The nice one turned out to be a bully who hid behind a mask of being loving. And the bad one turned out to be a scared bullied girl.

Ivy clenched her fist, she couldn't imagine how long Sofia had been behaving with Serena the way she did at that moment. And how blinded she was to see the true colors of the wolf in sheep's clothing that she called daughter.

"How dare you tell my child that she didn't deserve to be born?" Ivy barked at her.

Sofia tensed hearing her mother raise her voice. She was shocked and confused, this wasn't how things were supposed to turn out. The situation had reversed.

On normal occasions, it was Serena on the receiving end of everyone's anger and not her. She was speechless.

"Why do you care what she said. She is Sofia, the daughter you prefer over the one you gave birth to," Serena uttered to her mother.

She didn't dare look up and see her mother. Serena didn't want to see how hurt she was by her statement.

She didn't want to do that, but she had lost her life because of the witch before her and wasn't going to sit back and let her stay as a Delarosa anymore. The girl didn't deserve their last name and she was to make certain that the girl goes back to where she came from.

It was the only way to get Sofia out of her mother's heart. "Just stop this drama," she said getting up from the ground. "You feel the same way she does right?" She questioned her mother.

Ivy blinked. Her heart squeezed in her chest, she gritted her teeth in pain. The words of her child cut deeper than anything that she had ever felt. She looked at Serena with unconditional love in her eyes.

"I'll make it easy for you. I want to live with grandma from tomorrow," she spoke out.

Serena avoided her eyes and raced over to her grandmother who embraced her in a hug. "There love, I got you," Betina held her comfortingly with love.

Ivy stared at the two of them with tears in her eyes. As a mother, she would only wish for Serena to run into her arms and after a long time, she had that moment in the morning.

Yet that feeling was snatched away from her before the day came to an end. Her daughter's birthday was not over yet and she didn't have the heart to celebrate anymore.

She turned to Sofia, anger burning her skin third degree. She was to blame for everything that was happening. Replaying the things that Sofia said, remembering the hatred in her voice. She was enraged.

"You won't go anywhere," Ivy announced and paused momentarily to let her words sink in. "Sofia will be the one to leave," she added coldly.