One day after my C-section, my parents threw me out to give my room to my sister. I could barely stand and begged, “Please let me rest.” My mother sneered, “You’re useless to us.” As I sat in the cold, my sister’s husband rushed out, handed me a hidden camera, and whispered a secret that…

had given me life, the people who had almost broken me. I felt no anger anymore. I only felt an overwhelming, liberating emptiness.

“No,” I whispered. “Drive.”

The door of the U-Haul clicked shut, locking them out of the kingdom we had bought for them. But the real reckoning was only just beginning.

Chapter 7: Epilogue: The Phoenix

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