Chapter 5
They left no sooner than I got into the car with Nora to head home.
Nora lived alone in a small house in the suburbs.
She told me her ex–husband had divorced her because she gave birth to a daughter instead of a son.
She had planned to raise me correctly in this life, but fate had other plans when the babies got switched.
Things would get better from now on, though.
Nora set up a small breakfast stand near the local elementary school, and I helped her run it.
We didn’t make much money, but it was more than enough for us to live on.
After leaving the Evans family, I felt much lighter, started eating regularly, and even gained some weight in my face over the next two weeks.
During those two weeks, my phone never rang once.
For all their talk about making things up to me, Lyla and Rylan had forgotten about me, as usual.
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When they finally noticed I was gone and started calling me like crazy, I had already blocked all their numbers.
But the Evans family had their ways of finding people when they wanted to.
I was resting at home when a neighbor told me Nora’s stall had been trashed. A surge of indescribable rage shot through me.
When I ran over there, my anger exploded at the sight of Nora being pinned down by a group of people while Rylan stood there with his arms crossed, watching the show.
I charged right at him, knocking him off balance.
“What did you do to my mom? Let her go!”
Rylan nearly fell flat on his face. He glared at me and snapped, “You’ve got some nerve! I told you to stay home, but you ran away instead!
“What good could come from hanging around someone like her? Has she been filling your head with nonsense?”
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