Left Off the Christmas List, so I Left
On Christmas Eve, my mother sent a long gift list to our family group chat. It had everything from sports cars to diamond necklaces.
I was full of anticipation, but when the gifts were finally handed out, I realized the sports car was for my brother, Luca. The rest—the diamonds, the Hermès bags—were all for Mia.
Mia was our family’s adopted daughter. Her father used to work for my Papa and took a bullet for him. Because of that, the Sterling family had raised Mia as their own flesh and blood for ten years.
Not a single gift was for me.
When I asked my mother about it, she stated the obvious: "Julian is your fiancé. He’ll have something prepared for you."
"Mia is so pitiful for losing her fat