Chapter 64

“But I hope you can show me some love too, and try to understand what I have been through,” I said as I gently patted her

head.

Yvonne just stared at me with a blank face. Then she slowly nodded. “Okay, I will, Mommy.”

So I brought her home. I thought maybe something from how I raised her had finally gotten through. Yvonne seemed a little more grown–up. At the very least, she wasn’t having random meltdowns anymore.

That night, I bathed her and let her play on the bed while I went to take a shower. When I came out, I noticed she wasn’t in the room. My heart jumped.

I walked fast to her bedroom. It was empty. Finally, I heard her voice coming from the media room. Cartoons were playing, and I could hear her talking on the phone.

“A robot toy? One that dances and talks to me? That’s so cool. I want it. Tracy, when are you coming back? You said you’d take me to the zoo last time. Do you still remember?”

“I wish my mom were even half as nice as you. She’s been super mean lately.”

“Can you tell my dad to talk to her? Tell him to teach her not to be so mean to me.”

birthday’s coming up, right? I asked Grandma for some allowance money. I wanna buy you

want me to draw

a rose, and I’ll make you a necklace too. Do

and walked back to my room. A few minutes later, Yvonne

at my vanity and ran over to play with my makeup. “Mommy, when are you gonna buy me a lipstick? I wanna wear your pretty perfume

some baby lotion and rubbed it on her cheeks

said all of a sudden, like she was

but go to sleep early. You’ve

question her, so she crawled onto my bed and fell asleep quickly. I couldn’t sleep at all. Tracy’s birthday was coming up, and Yvonne was thinking about getting her

because she

different. Yvonne, even as a kid, already knew how to be sweet to Tracy. But when it came to me, her mom, what she wanted was just my

jumped straight into work. For the hotel’s lobby and hallway, I used

I gave it my all. I wasn’t

myself, seeing what I was capable of. I didn’t believe that someone who used to be a top student

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