Chapter 1
To cheer up my depressed adopted sister Sienna Evans, my parents, Charles Evans and Lyla Evans, didn’t dare show me too much love, even locking me in a dark room over seven hundred times. It was all to see her smile.
They initially felt guilty about it. Still, eventually, even my most loving brother, Rylan Evans, came to see it as perfectly usual.
Only when Sienna’s depression started to improve did I finally gather the courage to beg them on my knees to seal up that dark
room.
But at Sienna’s birthday party, I just wore my only T–shirt, and that was enough to make her tear up and ask Charles and Lyla if
I didn’t like her.
Charles, Lyla, and Rylan comforted her while throwing me back into that pitch–black room.
“Claire, you’re her big sister. You need to be more considerate of your sister’s feelings.
“If you hadn’t insisted on wearing such trashy clothes, your sister wouldn’t have gotten so upset.
“You’re used to this after all these years anyway, so what’s one more time?”
I huddled in the corner, pulling at my hair, unable to speak.
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I rubbed my chest, feeling a dull ache.
Was I feeling sad because of what they said about me?
But I really couldn’t remember anything.
It was like a fog had settled over my past, making everything hazy and unclear.
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The people outside didn’t care what I was thinking—they spent time comforting their precious girl.
I heard their footsteps as they led the girl away.
But in the next second, a large hand suddenly grabbed my arm.
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