Piper stopped faking it. “Yeah, I lied. I wanted
to take everything away from her. It worked,
didn’t it?”
For the first time, my dad hit Piper as hard as
he used to hit me. “Why! How could you treat
us this way? We have always been good to
you?”
Piper was seething “You guys were good to me
but where does an adopted daughter stand?”
“Why would you even care? For years, you
never believed Riley. You blamed everything on
her!”
My parents were speechless. Even Liam looked
pale.
They never believed me. They always made it
easier to treat Piper like she was the victim.
They were just awful human beings.
I didn’t talk to my family again. I went to college
far away from my hometown. They tried to find
out my school, and when they did, they went to
find me, but when the students realized who
they were, they threw them out of the school.
A few old friends told me what was going on
with my family. My parents finally figured out
what Piper was like, so they threw her out of
the house. Piper tried to get back with Liam,
but he didn’t want her back. She was used to
being spoiled, so she ended up sleeping with
some guy much older than my father.
My parents and Liam were never able to get
their business back on track. They would post
few words of apology on my birthday on social
media every year, but I ignored it.
Twenty years later, I had a kid. When I was
blowing the candles on my cake, I got a text
from a lawyer. My dad wanted to say goodbye,
and he wanted me to inherit everything he
owned.
I said that I was busy and kissed my daughter,
who was holding a cake. “Mommy, you’re the
I said that I was busy and kissed my daughter, who was holding a cake. “Mommy, you’re the one that I love the most, you should eat my
cake!”
My past was over. I had my own family now.
The End
