Mom Abandoned Me to Save Herself novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: Filthy Blood
Clem's hand tightened on the remote until the plastic creaked.
On the screen, Lucius took a breath for the cameras.
"When my wife came home, we learned she'd been forced to bear a child up there," he said. "We searched for that girl. We paid for her care for years."
"Liar," Clem told the TV.
"Last night she walked into our home on my son's arm. She has turned him against his own mother. She stole private Foundation records from my study."
He looked straight down the lens.
"If you see this young woman, don't approach her. She's armed, and she's sick. Call the police."
They put my face up on the screen beside his.
It was the picture from the gray sedan. Me on the diner step, squinting, my hair pushed back off the scar.
Under it, in red: JESSAMINE CUTTER, 25. SOUGHT FOR QUESTIONING.
A reporter shouted from the crowd.
"Mrs. Kesterson! Is she your daughter?"
My mother kept her eyes on the stone steps.
"My wife has suffered enough," Lucius said. "Thank you all."
He turned her by the elbow and walked her inside.
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