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Chapter 8

Author: Chloe X
After two months of separation, my once cherished daughter looked thinner, more fragile than I remembered. Her wide eyes welled with tears as she clung to my waist.

But I gently pulled her away, crouching to meet her gaze. “Isn’t Lily your mother now?”

Yelena’s lips trembled. She shook her head. “Mom, I was wrong… I don’t want Aunt Lily. I only want you to be my mom. She gave me gifts, but… she never cooked for me. She never told me bedtime stories.”

I interrupted her softly, “Yelena, don’t remember I seldom had time to cook for you? I was too busy working.”

I held her shoulders and looked her in the eye. “Do you remember lying to me? Telling me you and your dad only ate one bread for dinner?”

She flinched.

“I survived on one bread a day. What did you really eat, Yelena?”

Her small body shivered as the truth sank in. She turned suddenly and began kicking her father in anger. “It’s all your fault! You made me lie to Mom. Now she doesn’t want me anymore!”

Yeats didn’t stop her. He stood
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