"What I want is for you to go save your mother,” Vivian stated her intentions plainly.
Evelyn was a little miffed as she regarded Vivian with wild eyes. "My mom's already dead, so what the hell are you even talking about?"
"No, she's still alive because you're not even from the Morrisons." And the bomb was dropped.
"What sort of joke is this!" Evelyn's expression was dour. "You'd better stop this nonsense!"
"It isn't nonsense. My mother is your actual birth parent," Vivian said as she looked Evelyn straight in the eye.
Evelyn curled her lips and scoffed, "Even if you feel that you are not good enough for Finnick, you don't have to make up something as absurd as this just to spite me. What makes you think I'll believe you?"
Vivian guessed as much that Evelyn would not be easily convinced. She hastened to explain herself. "I'm not lying. Rachel William really is your mother. She has leukemia and you are her only blood relation. Only your bone marrow would most likely be a match for hers."
Not able to make any sense of this conversation, Evelyn thought Vivian might have lost all rationality after being agitated.
"You're insane." Evelyn rolled her eye at Vivian and left it at that before turned to head upstairs.
"Wait. You can't go!" Vivian stood herself in the way. "Have you been kidnapped as a new-born, and was rescued by my mother?" "How did you come to know about this?" Evelyn asked warily.
"Benedict was the one who told me about this, and my mother has confirmed it. She said that the little girl she picked up wasn't you. When she learned later from the news that the Morrison family lost their daughter, she had her own daughter sent to them in the hope that she would be able to have a better future. The Morrison's child was the one she kept and raised as her own."
Vivian related the truth of the past as concisely as she could to Evelyn.
Evelyn thought the whole thing rather laughable. "So, what you're insinuating is that you are a Morrison, and I the daughter of Rachel William?"
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