*All The Broken Dreams*

“Isla! You want me to believe that from the last two days, Ophelia had been called by Lady Beatrice for some herbs that only she can find and she only come home when I am not here?” Emma’s patience had given up, there was no way Isla was telling her the truth and even she knew now. “I---,” Isla had finally started to realize that this was not normal. Usually, her sister used to sneak out for a few hours but now she had been gone for the entire two days and there had been no sign of her. “You lied to me, didn’t you?” Emma saw her daughter stealing eyes from her and that was the last straw for her, “Did she run away with someone?” Emma slapped her forehead, pacing from one corner of the house to the other with tear filled eyes. “No! she--,” Isla had no idea what to say, if she told her mother about Ophelia’s affair, her mother would freak out and Ophelia will kill her. “Do you know where the hell she is?” Emma had enough now, she marched closer to her daughter and grabbed her by her arms