Five-Bedroom Dream Home Drama: Dad Demands I Hand My House to His Golden Child Sister — Until I Reveal the One Secret That Changes Everything

word meant I should fold.

I took a breath so deep it hurt.

“You’re right,” I said slowly. “Let’s make this simple.”

He paused. “What are you talking about?”

My heart pounded. My mouth went dry.

And then, with my mother’s porch-swing voice echoing in my head—choose yourself—I said the sentence that turned my world upside down all over again