Chapter283

Dad's brows knotted even more. He snapped at the doctor, "Show us the way!"

Lying there all by myself in the morgue, I'd been left alone for a week. To keep my body from rotting, I had to be put in a cold room.

The doctor wheeled me out, and there was a thin layer of frost on the white sheet covering me.

"Are you telling me this is Grace?"

Disbelief was etched on Dad's face. After the doctor nodded, he stepped forward and roughly pulled back the sheet from my body.

The moment the sheet was lifted, Dad was stunned.

Mom collapsed onto the floor.

Lucia screamed and threw herself into Antonio's arms, but he didn't catch her.

It was only when they were faced with my death that they reacted like normal people.

But even that didn't last long.

After they knew I was gone for good, Dad started making a fuss at the hospital. Instead of cremating me right away, he tried to use my body to get money out of the hospital.

He said the hospital didn't tell them I had died as soon as they should have, and he blamed the doctors and nurses for not doing their jobs right. He even thought my death wasn't normal and that the hospital had messed up, so they were hiding that I had been dead for seven days.

To get the most out of me and get that money, Dad brought in reporters.

of bad attention because of this, with people questioning

some security camera

staff tried to talk to my parents about me, but they just got

Can't you see we're busy with

old enough to take care

Why are you telling us? You're

plan backfired. He didn't get any money,

was calling them

where we lived and started hanging around our house every day, throwing stinky

out and saying mean things, Dad didn't think about what he

blamed

was a pain in the neck when she was alive, and even after she's

still messing with us. She's a real

complained, "It's all her fault I lost

and

month after I

read crying and saying he was

he just moved in

Lucia moved out, it was only Mom and Dad at home. Dad was always grumpy and took

blamed her for having a daughter like me, who

got really mad, he would hit Mom. Mom asked Lucia for help a

home when Mom got beaten. She would just call later to ask

Lucia to go to the hospital with her, Lucia would say, "I'm swamped.

after I was

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