Chapter 10

“So, that’s why you completely ignored me, letting Sophia torment me however she pleased. Every time you lost your temper, you’d throw that one line in my face—that I didn’t act like your daughter!”

“But do you know what? It was all a lie she fed you. She was terrified her own precious daughter would have no one to lean on, terrified she might face the slightest hardship, so she made it all up! How pathetic. You were completely fooled for ten long years!”

“You couldn’t even recognize your own flesh and blood. You don’t deserve to be called a mother!”

By the end, I was screaming, my voice raw and cracked.

I thought I would never shed another tear for her, but when I lifted a hand to my face, I realized it was drenched.

I could have accepted the neglect from my own mother, but I couldn’t accept that it all stemmed from such a ludicrous lie.

“So… Sophia… she isn’t…”

“I… How could I have believed something like that? How could I have treated you this way?”