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My Daughter’s Regret After I Gave Her Exactly What She Asked For
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Before a gathering of New York's underworld Families, I slipped into the vintage Chanel gown my mother had left me. As I looked in the mirror, my seven-year-old daughter suddenly said, "Mommy, it doesn't matter what you wear. You're always the ugliest one." Just like that, all the joy the gown had brought me disappeared. It wasn't the first time my daughter had said something cruel. Once, the FBI took me in for questioning and kept me for three days. The moment I got home, I wrapped her in my arms and asked if she'd missed me. She only shrugged. "No, Mommy. You're too stupid. Smart people don't get caught." My husband, Vincent, said sternly, "You can't talk to her like that. We're a family." I asked carefully, "If Mommy's so stupid, will you take care of me, sweetheart?" My daughter spread her hands. "Not me. Daddy said this family doesn't feed freeloaders." I was too stunned to speak. She just smiled at me, all innocence. "Don't be mad, Mommy. I'm only telling the truth." Every time she hurt me, she always added those same words. No matter how much it hurt, I kept telling myself she was simply too young to understand. That she didn't truly mean to hurt me. Until the day she smugly posted one of her "honest truths" on TikTok, hoping the whole internet would judge me. This time, she would regret telling the truth for the rest of her life.
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Nina had recognized me, I think.I'd changed cars, after all, but not the plate.She struggled to her feet and beat the dust off herself.She spat into her palm and smoothed down her tangled hair with it.Then she came limping toward me.In the car, Dolly was in the middle of telling me, with great animation, all the funny things that had happened at school.Seeing me drift off, she tilted her head and asked, "Mommy, why do you keep staring at the mirror like that?"I came back to myself and reached over to ruffle her hair."Nothing. Mommy just saw someone she knew a long time ago..."I stopped, suddenly unsure what to call her.Family?Not anymore.In the end, I found the right word."...someone. Mommy saw someone she used to know a long time ago."What Nina meant to me now.Just someone. Nothing more.Dolly tilted her head at me, not understanding, but she smiled sweetly and suddenly said, "Mommy, you're so pretty!"Warmth spread through me, and I glanced at the mirror.Seven years h
My Daughter’s Regret After I Gave Her Exactly What She Asked For Chapter 11
That familiar voice, those familiar words, made me stop the car and look a little longer.Her clothes were cheap and gaudy, and her face looked thirty.It took me a while to place her.It was Nina.Six years earlier, a caseworker from the orphanage had come to see me.She'd wanted to talk me into adopting Nina again."That girl you adopted before, her parents are truly worthless. For money, they sold her straight to an organ ring. She's already lost a kidney, and now she's too terrified to go home. She wants you to take her back. Would you?"I looked at Dolly in my arms, smiling up at me, sweet as anything."No. I have my own child now. I won't have her affecting Dolly."The caseworker sighed and said, softly, "I figured as much. I read up on her before I came. I knew it was a long shot.""You were so good to her, and she was so cruel to you. Who'd dare raise a child like that?""And with parents like hers, it looks like she'll just have to stay at the orphanage."Where Nina went after
My Daughter’s Regret After I Gave Her Exactly What She Asked For Chapter 10
Once the clarification video went up, the whole storm finally died down.Nina posted nothing more. How the Morettis managed that, I didn't care to know.Then came the court date, and Vincent had everything arranged.With the birth parents' claim and the statement Nina had signed herself, the judge honored her stated wishes and returned custody to her real parents.And on the very day my ties to Nina were severed for good, the hospital called with good news.I was pregnant.Ten months later, the baby came. A girl.I held the baby who looked almost exactly like me and wept for joy.Her eyes weren't open yet, but when I lifted her, she smiled, sweet as could be.This was my daughter.Vincent and I named her Dorothy, and we called her Dolly.She was our lucky star. The year she turned two, Vincent got his wish and founded his own Family, becoming a Don.He was Don Hale, and I was his Donna.Dolly grew day by day, and before long seven years had passed and she was starting grade school.I c
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But no matter how she begged, I didn't look back.I said quietly, "Is that so? I gave up on you a long time ago.""Don't forget." I bit out the words. "You're the one who said it. I'll be useless when I'm old. This family doesn't feed freeloaders.""It's not true! None of it's true! I was just angry!"She screamed it, frantic and afraid. "I said it on purpose to make you mad! It wasn't the honest truth!""Oh?"I gave a cold laugh. "That can't be right. You're an honest girl, remember? You told me again and again it was the truth.""Not once, not three times, but..." I laid each word down. "Every single time."Nina didn't answer.She couldn't, I think.She'd dug this hole herself, and now she'd fallen straight into it.The moment the door closed, I let out a long breath.Vincent pulled me in, sighed, and rubbed my back. "She’s just an ungrateful ingrate through and through. All those years of kindness, and not a scrap of it stuck.""Don't grieve over it. Treat it like a nightmare you've
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