Chapter 257 – Queen Reina

• Ella
• Of all the things I expected to hear when I met my long-lost mother for the first time, it certainly wasn’t, “You’re too late.”
• I stop dead in my tracks, glancing nervously at Cora, Roger and Philippe. We’re barely out of the transport boats, and my bare feet are sinking into the dense black sand covering the beach. It slips between my toes, and I absentmindedly squidge them this way and that, enjoying the sensations while my brain tries to catch up.