Chapter 3The Flower in the Slaughterhouse
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Mom's cold fingers touched my wounds.
My thoughts were pulled back, and I shivered violently.
Mom sighed softly: "Sometimes I really doubt if you are my child."
I looked at her face, silent.
Because I knew, I really wasn't their biological child.