ALPHA SILVER

Chapter one

the LETTER

I gazed as they eased the coffin into the ground, I have been in trauma since grandma died a week ago.

She was the only family I had, the only one I knew. Her demise was a tremor but the letter she left behind was additionally startling.

I always believed I was an orphan. I thought she was my family. She used to tell me tales of my supposed mother, who was her daughter. I always assumed my parents left me not by choice but because of the car accident that killed them.

Her letter affirmed that my whole life, I was inhabiting a lie. I had read the letter countless times and I knew it by heart.

"Dear Silver,

I write this letter not to break your heart but because I know am dying and before I die, you deserve to know the truth. Despite what you read in this letter, I want you to know I love you and you are an extraordinary miracle to me. You gave me not only a purpose to live but also hope unless I would have been lost in sight.

Seventeen years ago, I was in the kitchen when I heard the cry of a babe. I came out only to find an adorable newborn wrapped in a bloodied silver veil at my doorstep left for me to find.

You have always been lovely even when you were so little, covered in blood. It was apparent that you were just given birth to. You hadn't even been cleaned up yet.

To this moment I still wonder how you got to my doorstep and why you were left for me to find.

After taking you inside, I discovered you were clutching a silver necklace, the name Annalise was engraved on it and inside the locket was a picture of a beautiful young lady.

She looks so much like you except she doesn't have your remarkable features, your sliver eyes, and your white streak of hair. She is blonde with brown eyes, but you have her smile.

After cleaning you up, I didn't know what to do with you. I intended to inform the police, in case your family was searching for you.

I was on my way when I received a call that altered everything, Veronica had just left my home to go back to the city where she lives with her husband and 10-month-old daughter, Jessica was involved in a car accident and they all died. I was shattered, Veronica was my only child. I felt I had lost everything.

None of them survived, I had no daughter, no son-in-law, and no granddaughter.

I delayed taking you to the police for two weeks to settle the funeral preparation. When it was time to give you back on the way to the police I realized I couldn't, you had become my purpose for living.

I was already connected to you and regarded you as mine. I took you back home and chose to name you Silver Annalise Jacobs. Silver because of three things, one was your unique silver eyes, the other was the veil you were wrapped in was silver, and because of the silver locket.