Chapter 208

Silvia "Mommy! Can I play with her?" Orion asked, his childish voice tinged with hope, breaking the somber silence. He pointed at a little girl sitting across from us. Her dark hair was pulled into a neat bun, and she sat perfectly still in her chair, staring back at him with eyes that looked far too old for her face. There was something distant in her gaze, like she wasn't really in the room at all. She wore a plain black dress, no jewelry or color, just a single black ribbon tied in her hair. Stella. Stella Legacy. Mason and Violet Legacy's daughter. Violet had died from complications a year after their wedding, leaving Mason to raise Stella alone. Life's weird like that. It throws things at you you never see coming. When I was a child, I used to ask the universe why everything hurt so much. Why me? Why always me? I was just an Omega. People barely noticed me. Barely respected me. I felt like I didn't matter. But then life surprised me. It gave me a second family. Parents who chose m