Aims

‘No child deserves that, a voice whispered in the back of her mind, a voice that sounded a lot like her own younger self.

"I was also able to ascertain their names," Valentina continued, breaking the silence. "The twin on Ava's left…is the oldest. His name is Ethan Monroe." She paused, her gaze shifting to the twin on Ava’s right. "And the younger one is named Evan Monroe."

Ethan and Evan. The names sounded foreign yet comforting, grounding them in a semblance of normalcy amidst the chaos of their existence. Ava felt a flicker of relief knowing they at least had identities, even if those identities were tainted by the horrors they had endured.

But the relief was quickly overshadowed by a wave of pure, unadulterated anger. Anger at the parents who abandoned them, anger at the monsters who experimented on them, anger at the system that allowed such atrocities to occur.

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