CHAPTER 7 – The Grave That Changed Everything
Blackstone Manor stood alone on a cliff overlooking the ocean.
For decades, no one had dared enter it.
Locals whispered that every owner had disappeared without a trace.
Just before sunrise, Emily arrived alone.
Exactly as the mysterious message had instructed.
The massive iron gates slowly opened by themselves.
No guards.
No cameras.
Only silence.
Inside the mansion, every light was on.
A long dining table stretched across the grand hall.
Three plates had already been prepared.
One for Emily.
One for Daniel.
One for Michael Carter.
But only one man was waiting.
Michael.
Older.
His hair streaked with gray.
Yet unmistakably the man from the video.
Emily stood frozen.
"You..."
He smiled sadly.
"I'm sorry it took twenty-six years."
Without thinking, Emily slapped him across the face.
The sound echoed through the mansion.
"You let me believe you were dead!"
"You let Mom disappear!"
"You let Grandpa lie to me!"
Michael didn't defend himself.
He simply whispered,
"I deserved that."
Then he placed a thick folder on the table.
"Everything you believe about our family is wrong."
Emily opened it.
Inside were classified government documents.
Photographs.
DNA reports.
Death certificates.
And one file stamped in bright red:
PROJECT GENESIS – SUBJECT E-01
Her hands trembled as she read the first page.
Subject Name: Emily Carter
Status: Successfully Created
Created?
Not born.
Created.
Emily looked up in horror.
"What does this mean?"
Michael closed his eyes.
"It means..."
"You weren't the result of an accident."
"You were the result of an experiment."
Before he could explain further, the mansion doors burst open.
Daniel stormed inside with the commander and a tactical team.
"Get away from her!"
Michael didn't even move.
Instead, he calmly slid one final document across the table.
A DNA report.
Emily read it once.
Then again.
She couldn't breathe.
Probability that Michael Carter is Emily's biological father: 0.00%
The room fell silent.
Daniel stared at the report.
The commander slowly lowered his weapon.
Emily looked at Michael with tears streaming down her face.
"You lied..."
Michael nodded.
"Yes."
"I'm not your father."
"I only raised you."
Emily turned toward Daniel.
He looked away.
"No..."
she whispered.
"If you're not my father..."
"And Grandpa isn't my father..."
"Then who am I?"
A slow clap echoed from the mansion balcony.
Everyone looked up.
A woman dressed in white stepped into the light.
Emily recognized her instantly.
Her mother.
But she wasn't alone.
Beside her stood the man everyone thought had died twenty years earlier—
Daniel's own brother.
He smiled at Emily.
"It's finally time."
She frowned.
"Time for what?"
The man pulled out an old photograph.
It showed two newborn babies lying side by side in a hospital.
One had a bracelet labeled Emily.
The other...
Had no name at all.
He looked directly into Emily's eyes.
"You've been searching for your parents..."
"But you've never searched for..."
...your twin sister.
Emily felt the world collapse beneath her feet.
"A twin...?"
The woman in white nodded slowly.
"Yes."
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"And she's been leading the Genesis Syndicate this entire time."
TO BE CONTINUED...
