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.

were bom to be loved, and then there were children like

been unwanted by William. When she was bom, the Shaw Group

William had suffered a serious car accident and nearly lost his

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

to the so-called fortune-teller, her and William's destinies were

in the so-called prophecy, paid the fortune-teller a large

pleaded desperately, but it

Sierra was less than two months old, William had callously thrown

Bobby who rushed over, furiously scolding William and exposing the so-called “spiritualist” as a fraud. However, William wouldn't

was enraged. He declared that if William wouldn't raise her,

with hobby's decision, and he relented, allowing him

second chance at life. He also gave Sierra the name she carried hoping that she would shine as brightly as the

envied the other children who were surrounded by the love of their parents, playing

back her questions and asked Vera why William never came to see her. Vera had replied that William was busy working and earning money

Sterra had nodded obediently, 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