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The Only One Left Behind
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On my birthday, my father posted a roulette to the family group chat. He said the prizes would be given on the spot. I was nervous as I'd been very much looking forward to the Syldan trip. My brother smiled. "You first, birthday girl." I spun the wheel, and it stopped at "Stay at home". Everyone else got "Flight ticket to Syldan". Claire Zimmer, my adopted sister, murmured quietly, "Can I give Theodora my ticket, Dad?" My brother interrupted, "No. Rules are rules. Besides, you've been looking forward to this! You can't miss it!" My mother smiled. "You're a good girl, Theodora. Stay home. We'll bring some gifts for you." I said it was okay. After all, it was just my luck. Then, my father took out four tickets from his pocket and gave them to everyone with a smile. The tickets already had their names on them. I froze. It was then that I remembered that the same thing had happened during the room split three years ago. Claire got the main bedroom, while I got the dark and humid storage room. As a result, I'd been in frail health since then. I knew right then that I didn't have rotten luck. The roulette was rigged so I would never ever get the good prizes. There was no point spinning any more wheels. I quietly went back to my room and texted my mentor, "I'm up for the four-year secret project in the Gaulian Sands, professor."
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The Only One Left Behind Chapter 10 Blue Skies
Tears fell from the corner of that woman's eye as she clenched the sheets tightly with her bony fingers. She had once used those hands to help Claire wear a watch, but now they looked like gnarly dead branches.I knew why she was crying, and it wasn't out of love for me. She was crying because she realized she'd lost something precious after Claire took off with their money, when Clement was in prison, and when Neil couldn't even afford some good bread from the bakery.She realized that she had thrown away the only person who would endure sleeping in the dark and dank storeroom. She realized that she'd discarded that one person who would work two jobs and give everything she had for her. She had tossed her biological daughter aside for one who wasn't of her blood."Let's go." I looked away."You're not going in?" the officer asked."Why should I?" I turned around and went toward the elevator at the end of the corridor. "She wants to see the Theodora, who would follow her every c
The Only One Left Behind Chapter 9 Cut Off
"Back off! Don't get any closer to Ms. Gray!" Two burly guards quickly stepped between us, and Neil was shoved to the ground.It looked like it hurt, but he didn't let it stop him. Neil grabbed the guard's pants leg and looked at me. "You're back. I'm sorry, Theodora. I'm sorry!" He pointed at his chest, where that old keychain hung."Look, it's your present for me. I've been wearing it! Your mother's in Mercy Hospital's ER department. She's dying. She's been apologizing every day! Your brother is serving his time, and he's been writing repentance letters every day."Come home, Theodora. I'll give you the main bedroom. No, the whole house! Let's become a family again, please."The people who were here for business turned to look at us. They probably thought this was just a family drama where an ungrateful daughter had abandoned her terminally ill mother and bankrupt father.I watched Neil cry, but I felt nothing. "Mr. Gray," I said calmly.Neil was stunned. "What did you just cal
The Only One Left Behind Chapter 8 Begging
That basement was darker and damper than the storeroom I used to live in. My mother's legs were now both paralyzed, and she spent her days in a wheelchair. They barely scraped by with my father's scavenging and retirement money.The last page of the report had a photo that had been taken surreptitiously. It was a picture of my father wearing an old, tattered garbage collector uniform. The man was sitting by the road, munching on a piece of bread, and a pendant hung from his neck.I recognized the pendant. I'd bought it for him with my first scholarship fund in my freshman year. However, he tossed it into the coffee table's drawer without even sparing it a glance. "I don't want something this cheap hanging in my car. It's embarrassing."Now, he was hanging it where it was closest to his heart. I closed the report and tossed it into the shredder. The machine buzzed and shredded every word regarding the Grays."Gary." I opened the door."What do you need, Ms. Gray?""Get me the appl
The Only One Left Behind Chapter 7 Their End
My father even hired private investigators to search for me, but the authorities swiftly detained them for 15 days the moment they investigated Professor Zlensky. After they came out, the private investigators refunded my father."Your daughter didn't go missing, Mr. Gray. She just got promoted. Stop looking into the matter, or your family's going to go to prison.""Say something, Neil!" My crying mother grabbed my father's sleeve. "Where is Theodora? Has she abandoned us?"My father took out that diary from his briefcase and tossed it onto the bed. The cover was already in tatters from getting flipped too much."She abandoned us a long time ago," said my father raspily. "She stopped considering us her parents the moment we sent her into that storage room three years ago.""No! I'm her mother! I gave birth to her! I raised her!" my mother screamed hysterically. "She will forever be my daughter no matter where she goes! Clement, get us the deed! We'll sell the house and go to Imper
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