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Echoes of My Mother

Penulis: Bella Moondragon
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-08-22 01:54:27

Steph POV

I stared at my mother’s name.

Maren.

It had been fourteen years since I last saw it—since I last heard it. After I was branded, and she left like smoke through fingers, Harlon never spoke about her. And if I tried to bring her up, his answer was a scream, a thrown beer bottle, or a slap across the face.

The woman who abandoned her daughter and let her get branded as a hated outcast.

I loved her.

I resented her.

I missed her.

I never want to see her again.

I want my mom.

Forgetting everything around me, I snatched the paper from Tyler and unfolded it so hastily that I sliced my thumb. I didn’t even feel the pain or notice the bead of blood.

The writing was a messy script, just barely legible. I didn’t remember Mom’s handwriting to be the opposite of her personality, but then again, I was only six years old when she left. In grief, my memory of her and our life before she left had warped over the years.

No child believed their parent would up and abandon them so young. Did I
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