At just thirteen, Ella's carried a secret buried in the past --- one that had had the power to unravel everything she was .
She never wanted to revisit the past or reveal the secret she kept buried deep inside.
Ella hid the truth from every one ----even her best friend, Ace ---- fearing that once it came to light , nothing would ever be the same .
Ella was an orphan, raised in the cold, quiet halls of the orphanage she had known as home. But when she turned ten, she couldn't bear the loneliness any longer. She ran away, determined to survive on her own.
Destiny had a strange plan for her that evening. After finishing another long, uneventful shift at work, she was heading home, lost in thought, when a stranger appeared out of nowhere. He stepped into her path with an unsettling calm, his eyes holding a knowledge she couldn't place—a silent message she somehow knew was meant only for her. In that moment, everything ordinary about her day began to unravel.