When the Fake Heiress Hurt Me, My Whole Family Felt It
The day I came home as my parents' long-lost daughter, a pain-link system connected us. Whenever I got hurt, my parents and two older brothers would suffer the same injuries and feel the same pain, no matter how far apart we were.
At first, I thought I'd imagined it. Then, while looking through an old photo album, I cut my right index finger on a page. Before Mom could press a tissue to it, her own fingertip began to bleed. Dad and my second brother Leo Hartley stared down at identical cuts on their hands. Even my oldest brother, Ethan Hartley, called before he got home to ask why his finger had suddenly started bleeding.
The next afternoon, I arrived early for the welcome-home party my pare