Differences Aside

For ten years, I lived a life that wasn' t mine, sacrificing my scientific dreams to become the perfect wife and mother.

My carefully built world shattered when I overheard my husband, Mark, tell our ten-year-old daughter Mia, that her real mother, my sister Sophia, was finally coming back.

He then twisted a venomous lie, blaming me for Sophia' s decade-long absence, claiming I was jealous and drove her away.

Mia' s face twisted in fury, her blue eyes, once filled with love, now burned with hatred as she screamed, "You're a monster! I hate you!"

Before I could react, she lunged and shoved me down the grand staircase, leaving me crumpled and bleeding on the marble, physically and emotionally broken.