LUSCIOUS POISON

Chapter 17

"How can you be so sure that she's my real sister? Mom! Dad! How can you be just this easy to believe when in fact you have Camella's body burnt 20 years ago!" Calla retaliates that she almost want to throw a hand on the paper she was holding.

"I ran a test with the ash, her majesty and it came negative," said Mikael and that kind of boiled her blood.

"No! You are not touching my sister's urn!" She yelled and pointed a finger to their family's lawyer. She looked at her parents and they're both looking at her with warning.

"We are going to run further test with your sister in the Philippines and that is why we are going there, immediately," her father said.

She couldn't just believe what she just heard for the last time she check, her mom would never want to step her feet back to that country for she despises her family. What just happened? Just because someone claimed to be her daughter?

"No." She retaliates that made her parents looked at her with disbelief. "You are not going to that country, we are not going to see that woman who just claimed to be Camella. How the hell-----"

"Calla, shut up!"

She scoffs as her mom shouted at her to shut the hell up.

"Shut up, Calla," said her mother in a low tone this time but Calla, she still in gaped. "My daughter, your sister, your twin sister went through a lot in that country. We need to bring her in her real home so she can live the life she was supposed to be living her whole life." Her mother cried. "My poor daughter."

"Give this a chance, Calla. If she really is your sister, then she deserves to be here," said her father.

"I didn't know you were doubting that body you burnt decades ago," she said that made her parents stunned for a second.

"I did not," her mother responded. "We did not, but a woman came here and informed us that there's this baby left on her when she was 5 and she was unconscious because of the multiple bruises all over her body."

"Pa, ma, we were 5 when we were abducted. You found us 4 days later. We were kidnapped and found here In Madrid. How the hell Camella arrive in the Philippines? Pa, we can't just conclude things right just because it was said like this," she responded and she was getting pissed about it.

"Mikael, when will be the result of the DNA testing of the ashes?" The King asked Mikael.

"In 3 days, your highness," answered Mikael.

Calla squeezed her eyes as she looked back the lawyer, "I remembered you just said you have already had it tested? Are you f*cking kidding here?!"

"I asked earlier before you arrived to conduct one again, to make sure. I couldn't just said that the one I cried a lot of tears is not my daughter."

"I do not know what kind of scheme you are trying to play with, Ma. But I am telling you this, give me back my sister's urn or you will be sorry, all of you."

"Calla Vasquez!"

"What, Ma?!" She yelled back. She's upset because she couldn't accept it that her parents were so excited to meet this Camella they just found. "Why the hell you didn't tell me you were searching for her, that somebody told you that my sister was all alive and kicking in that country?!"

"Because we have to know first if those are true," her father responded.

"I personally went to the Philippines to meet her, your highness. You are fraternal and no one could tell that you two are twins that is why I quickly made some test about her and came positive and matched with the King's DNA. She was confirmed her daughter," said Mikael but still, Calla's heart is indenial. She won't believe it.

"And why the hell you are working with this, Mikael? It is not your job," she said.

"There is no other people we can trust family matters aside from Mikael, Calla. Your father personally asked a favor to him and thank God, he accepted the job and helped us find the truth," said her mother.

"I am not going to the Philippines," she said that made her mother throw a dagger look at her. "Hand me back my sister's urn, Mikael. I can sue you all for touching it without my permission."

"Calla, don't use that against ----"

"No mama, you invaded the thing I have under my authority. You didn't asked me first when you make that move. So, you will not be forcing me to go to that country and meet that woman," she said angrily.

She couldn't handle the disrespect they made with Camella's urn without even telling her and the whole council.

"I am the King---"

"But that doesn't give you the right to break the law, Pa," she argues.

"Infanta Camella, she was expecting to see you any day this week as you promised, Querida Reina," said Mikael.

"I am asking and begging you, Calla, not the Queen consort of the House but your mother. I need to see my daughter and to confirm if she really is your sister. Come with me in my country and let's meet her together," her mother said in that soft and low tone.

"You will not be needing me there, ma. Papa will be coming with you," she said and turned her back at her parents without minding that they will hate her a lot again — like she mind it.

She gritted her teeth and clenched her fist thinking that there must be that girl waiting for her royal life that she despises the most. If that girl thought that it's a fantasy living a life where all of people's eyes are on you, then she nees to wake up from that deep dream.

"I will find it my way."