A Surprising Twist of Fates (Sierra and Theo)

Chapter 49 Chapter 49 Memories

"You and them are family. I am not,” Sierra said.

"Sierra, it's not like that. Vera hurried to explain, but Sierra's cold voice cut heroft.

“Then, Mom, tell me this–why was Xavier surrounded by love and attention from both parents while I was abandoned the moment I was bom?

"Why did my father refuse to acknowledge me? Why, every year for Xavier's birthday, did you carefully prepare gifts, but on mine, I'm just forgotten? My birthday is only ten days after Xavier's, but none of you remember that."

As Sierra spoke her emotions began to overwhelms her, and her eyes welled up with tears.

Vera shifted uncomfortably under her gaze, her throat tight, unable to respond. The room fell into an oppressive silence.

Sierra forced her gaze upward, fighting to hold back the tears that threatened to spill over.

“Actually, when I was six years old, I understood... I was the unwanted child.

loved, and

When she was bom,

an unprecedented financial crisis, William had suffered a serious car accident

fortune-teller, who told him that the source of the misfortune lay

were incompatible, and living together would bring

fortune-teller a large sum of

knelt and pleaded desperately, but it hadn't softened

less than two months old, William had callously thrown her into the snow

rushed over, furiously scolding William and exposing the so-called “spiritualist” as a fraud. However, William wouldn't listen, still insisting that he

enraged. He declared that if William wouldn't

hobby's decision, and he relented, allowing him to take

second chance at life. He also gave Sierra the name she carried hoping that she

other children who were surrounded by the love of

would visit her occasionally, but William never came, One time, she didn't hold back her questions and asked Vera why William never

and in her childish voice, she said that when she grew up, she would help William so that he wouldn't have to work so hard. At that time, she didn't understand why Vera's eyes suddenly filled with tears as she pulled Sierra into a