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The little girl with my secretary was my real
daughter.
Because she was related to the other child,
they looked a lot like each other.
Even her clothes and hair had been styled to
match the other body on the ground.
They looked like twins.
But she looked scared.
Like a kitten that had been abused.
She looked at everyone with fear in her eyes.
The crowd was completely lost.
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The internet was blowing up with questions.
Only Mark and Sarah looked like they knew
what had just happened.
Their eyes were wide, and their faces were
white.
“You little bitch, you’re not really dead?”
Sarah was the first to speak, she was angry
and her eyes were filled with hatred.
I moved my terrified daughter behind me, and
looked Sarah in the face.
“I bought off the people you had arranged to
swap the babies.”
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“So, the person you threw off the building
was your own daughter.”
My words hit Sarah like a punch in the gut.
She already knew that the body was her
daughter’s, but my words reminded her that
she had killed her own child.
She had planned to kill my daughter, and then
blame me, and have me killed too.
So she, Mark, and Amy could live together.
But it turned out that she’d killed her own
daughter, Amy.
It was too much for her to take.
Mark was furious, he shouted at me,
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“You’re so evil!”
“Even if Amy wasn’t your real daughter, you
raised her for five years.”
“How could you just let her die like that?”
I looked at Mark and spoke slowly.
“Yes, I raised Amy for five years.”
“And in those five years, Amy was always
rude and treated me like a slave.”
“Do you know how I found out about her?”
“On the drive to school this morning, she was
acting extra sweet and told me how much she
loved me.”
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“That was so strange, that I decided to look
into her past.”
I looked at the body and then to Sarah and
said coldly,
“Our daughters looked a lot alike, but there
were some differences. But you’re such a bad
mother that you didn’t even look to see if you
were throwing your own daughter off a
building.”
Last time, I didn’t recognize Amy because, by
the time I arrived, her body was covered in
blood.
My eyes were drawn to the blood and I was
so distraught that I couldn’t see the truth.
But when Sarah threw Amy off the roof, Amy
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was still alive, and Sarah should have been
able to see that it wasn’t my daughter.
I never would have expected that she was so
cruel.
Sarah’s eyes were wild as she said, “You’re
going to pay for this!”
I looked at her confused. “Shouldn’t I be
asking you that?”
“Even if she wasn’t your real daughter, there
was no reason to abuse her and leave her
covered in bruises!”
“And Amy is dead because of you, so why
would I have to pay?”
I thought of how my real daughter had never
ad a single good day. She had been thrown
ff a building and killed.
And I had been blamed for it by Sarah and
Mark.
My parents had died without anyone knowing
the truth, or taking care of their remains.
And now, all three of them were trying to kill.
me again.
I couldn’t find a single reason to feel bad for
them.
Amy wasn’t my child.
She was selfish and rude, but I had tried to
love her and raise her.
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But my secretary had told me that she knew
the whole plan.
She had known that Sarah would try to blame
me and had even helped to make the video
that was blaming me.
She was evil and manipulative.
She had tried everything just to be with her
real mom.
If she didn’t care about me, then why should I
care about her?
Sarah was furious, “I’m going to kill you!”
She put down the body and tried to run
toward me, but the police had just arrived.
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“We’ve had reports that you two are guilty of
abusing a child, slander, and murder. Please
come with us.”
Sarah and Mark were taken away in front of the angry crowd.
Because of the terrible things that they had done, they were sentenced to death.
And me? I started a new life with my real daughter.
To protect my daughter, I never thought of marrying again.
This time, I wanted to give my daughter all
the love that she needed.
I wanted to show her that life is good.
