A Eternal Love

chapter 28

Mia’s hands trembled as she clutched the old answering machine to her chest. The storm had passed, leaving the night eerily quiet, but her mind roared with questions that couldn’t wait.

She, Rebecca, and Jeremy goes to her gm house , their footsteps echoing through the long hallway until they reached the sitting room where Bella sat, her posture as unyielding as iron.

“Grandma,” Mia began, her voice sharp with urgency, “we found proof. The call that night—it wasn’t Reese. It was Jeeya. We heard her voice.”

Bella’s expression flickered, but only for a heartbeat. Then her lips tightened. “Nonsense. You’re clinging to shadows, Mia. You’ve always been too stubborn to see the truth.”

Jeremy slammed the machine onto the table. “We’re not imagining things. We heard it with our own ears. Jeeya called Mia. You knew it all along, didn’t you?”

Rebecca stepped forward, her tone cutting. “Why blame Reese? Why twist everything? Unless you were protecting someone.”

Bella’s eyes narrowed, her voice like a whip. “ Jeeya? If she’s truly involved, then I’ll confront her myself. I’ll drag the truth from her lips, I want all of you to stay out of it ”

Mia’s chest burned. “You don’t care about truth, Grandma! You care about control. You let me carry the guilt of that night, you made me believe I was the reason she died—when you knew the truth all along.”

Bella’s face hardened, but her eyes betrayed a flicker of shame. For a long, suffocating moment, she said nothing. Then finally, her shoulders slumped.

“Yes,” she admitted, her voice low. “I knew it was Jeeya.”

The words cracked something inside Mia. Her heart felt as if it had shattered in her chest.

“You lied to me,” she whispered, tears burning her eyes. “You watched me suffer, you let me hate Reese, you turned me against my own blood. How could you?”

Rebecca’s voice shook with fury. “You’ve hate mia. Always. But this—this is cruel, even for you.”

Jeremy’s glare was ice cold. “You don’t get to play god with this family anymore.”

For the first time, Bella looked smaller, diminished under the weight of their anger. “I was trying to protect you,” she murmured, but the words sounded hollow.

Mia opened her mouth to speak again—but the sound of shattering glass cut through the room.

A dark figure burst through the window, another forcing the door. Their faces hidden, movements sharp and violent.

“Down!” bella shouted, pulling Rebecca aside.
Bella quickly grab her gun from her drawer , and hit one attacker's  leg.

One of the attackers lunged straight for Mia, a blade glinting in his hand. Before she could move, Bella stepped in front of her, taking the strike to her shoulder. She cried out, staggering but refusing to fall.

“Grandma!” Mia screamed, catching her as she collapsed to the ground.
" I just want to protect you all" Bella said.

Jeremy tackled one of the intruders, Rebecca smashing a lamp against the other. The fight was brutal, quick—wood splintering, glass flying, the house filling with chaos once more. Both attackers were injured, blood marking their escape route as they retreated into the night.

But before they disappeared, one of them spat words that froze Mia’s blood:

“This isn’t over. We’ll come back.”