Tessa heard something behind her making her turn around harshly and peek inside the door into the hallway. 

She found no one and when she was so she turned around to focus on the butler and her husband while pinching her nostrils. Javis had almost emptied it and Korr was nearing him. 

But then she had it again. This time she sharply turned around and moved inside the door to look into the hallway. If this was a maid then she had no need to hide but just as she heard the sound she had turned around and saw no one. 

This only meant that no one was there but Tessa was sure that she heard someone or rather something. 

She huffed but then looked up. Has something fallen over? Teresa did not remember if she had closed the window of the Adaline's room or not. 

Without glancing back at the two men standing at the garden she moved upwards climbing the stairs slowly. She huffed at the end. She was not athletic anymore. 

She opened the door to Adeline's room only to come to a stop. How? 

She stared at the figure in front of her. It was almost as if she was here, in front of her Alive and breathing and not on the other side of the country. 

"A-adeline?" Tessa whispered. "You?" 

The figure in front of her turned around bouncing her hair around with a jolly smile on her face. "Hi, Auntie Tess!" 

Auntie Tessa? Was she really here? 

"Hello," Tessa whispered as she stared at the figure in a trance, "you . . . . Who are you?" This could not be her. If Adeline was back at home when she was going to come back from the front door, yelling about how tired she was. 

"What do you mean?" Adeline gave a giggle as she stared at her aunt. "It's me. How can you not recognise me?" 

Tessa stepped towards her. She still could not believe her eyes. How was it that Adeline, who had traveled to the north of the country, was now sitting in front of her in her room on her study desk as if she had never been outside the house? 

This. . . Whosoever it was, had a smile on her face which Teresa found very creepy. "Who are you?" 

Adeline tutted. "It is shameful that you are asking me that now. I hope you know that this is not funny." 

Tessa gaped at her. Adelene would never be so shameless and manual is to say something so disrespectful to a family member or just anyone. 

"Get out, whoever you are, just get out of here." Tessa hissed as she glared at the girl. "Get out of here before I—" 

"I what? Call my mate?" Adeline completed with a scoff. "Do you not find it to be atrocious to know how you found my so-called uncle horrifying and how much hatred you had for him inside you and now you're the one that sleeps with him inside one room?" 

". . ." 

Adeline tilted her head. " I find it very horrifying." She stood up and walked closer, "not only that, but I hate everything about how you are behaving like a whore with him."

A gasp left Tessa's mouth. 

Adeline smirked. "I would go as far as to say that you are so desperate for attention but you don't even see who you are trying to get it from."

"Shut up!" Tessa screamed at the end, unable to take it. "Who the hell are you!" 

"Anything," she answered while giving a smile that showed off her teeth, "I can be anyone or anything you want me to be."

Tessa took a small step back. The fear was arising slowly. If this was not Adaline then who was this? 

The girl in front of her tilted her again. "Are you afraid?" She pouted and even though she had the face of her niece she looked hideous. 

Tessa stepped back before hurriedly turning around and running towards the door only for the door to shut itself. She came to stop as she stared at the door with wide eyes. How did the door close itself?

"You can't leave without completing the conversation, Aunt Tessa." Tessa heard a tsk behind her. " How do you expect me to behave well when you do not know the basic manners?" 

Tessa gulped. The fear has broken through. " Who are you? I know that you are not my adaline so don't bother lying." 

She chuckled. "I am diffi—" she gasped loudly, making Tessa take a cautious step back. 

"Th-they. ." The imposter in front of her started to breathe heavily and Tessa covered her mouth as She watched her bend down and try to gasp for air. 

"They. . .are. ." The thing straightened up and her eyes met with Tessa's, making the later jump in shock. 

"You," she growled out and zipped to Tessa making her shriek at the suddenness, "they. . .they. .bur—" she gargled something out. She looked like she was choking and Tessa made no move to help her. 

Her hands went to her throat and left Tessa's shoulders who immediately moved away from the girl. She fell on her knees and tried to reach as far as she could. The choking did not stop and it seemed like something was stuck down her throat. 

Tessa's entire body trembled in what she saw in front of her. 

The girl coughed and something dark in colour was spat out. Tessa grimaced at the sight of it first only for it to change in horror. 

The girl vomited dirt. It was pure soil. 

She spat the remains out as Tessa watched. She looked at Tessa with complete darkness in those eyes making Tessa stumble back and fall down. 

Tessa watched the creature as she started to crawl back only for it to get up. Just as it fell down again making Tessa scream loudly. The girls exterior started to change. Footsteps bounded up the stairs and the door slammed open. 

Korr immediately reached for his mate before his eyes found the rotting carcass. "Tess—" 

Tessa eyes remained on the spot where the girl had returned herself and left a huge black mark.