I am NOT Bella

Chapter 10 - Haunted by ghosts from the past.

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"After you ran away with your tail between your legs, how dare you talk like this?"

"I have the right to make my own choices." I retorted harshly.

"You have always been this way, Izzy, what else could I expect from a coward like you?" She laughed bitterly, not concealing her outrage. "Always cowering, giving up, running away. Always leaving me to face your problems. How can you turn on me after all I've done for you?"

"Does anything I did matter?"

"Don't make me laugh, Izzy. If it weren't for me, you'd have the same fate as the others. Without me, you're nothing!" She shouted, pointing her finger in my direction.

"I am a person, Bella, not an obedient puppet to be commanded at your will. Again, I have the right to make my own choices."

"And what choices are you going to make, Izzy? You can't even go to the damn grocery store without me. How will you survive on your own?"

"I can learn to survive without you, Bella."

"How dare you say such a thing after all that we've been through together?"

"You didn't consider my feelings when you used Xavier to stop me. How did you find out? Did you spy on me?"

"How did I find out? And did you think I wouldn't notice you going through our funds alone?"

"So, it's always been about the money, hasn't it? Some of that money is also mine!"

"It's not about money, I did what I did for your benefit!"

"For my benefit? Don't twist the facts, Bella. I'm tired of your games!"

"What games? You always got me wrong! Do you feel this way about your only family? You think the worst of me when I did everything for you!"

"If our family ties were so important to you, you'd be the first one on the lookout for Stella."

"I've told you more than once. Stella isn't part of our family."

"For god sakes, Bella, Stella is our little sister!"

"A half-sister who does not even look like us. Have you forgotten what we went through?"

"She was a victim, just like us."

"Victim or not, I told you to give up the search for that girl and focus on our plan."

"No, I've had enough. I won't concentrate on any plan until I find Stella!"

"There you go again!" Bella rolled her eyes. "Stop being stubborn, you tried everything and found no trace. She wasn't even in the hands of the human trafficking."

"There is still a chance to find her if she hasn't been caught by the mafia."

"And what will you do? Hacking another government agency? Maybe you're crazy enough to hack the Pentagon! You almost got caught last time!

"It must be somewhere I haven't looked yet."

"Yes, at the bottom of the Mississippi River like the others."

"Stella is not dead, Bella! She came to the orphanage that day for a checkup, that man told me."

"Stop deluding yourself, you almost died in that fire because of that monster's lies. Stella is dead. I saw it with my own eyes. Quit wasting our time."

"No, now everything's over, I must find her. We deserve to live happily."

"Fuck! Nothing is over, Izzy. If they find out who you are, they'll imprison us again or kill us like the others. Do you want that?"