The Daughter They Sacrificed Chose a New Life novel · Chapter 7 of 24

Chapter 7: The Post

By morning, my phone had two thousand notifications, and none of them were from anyone I knew.

I sat on the edge of the narrow bed and scrolled.

Chloe had posted a video at midnight from her hotel room.

She sat on the white bedspread in her pink cardigan with her face scrubbed bare, and her voice cracked in all the right places.

"I flew across the country to say sorry to my sister," she told the camera. "She turned me away at the door. She left home on the anniversary of my father's death, on her own birthday, and she won't even speak to me."

She wiped her eyes with the back of her wrist.

"I just wanted my family back."

The video had two million views.

Under it were a hundred thousand comments.

I read the first ones standing in the hall.

How can anyone treat a grieving orphan like that.

Her dad DIED for this girl.

Someone had found my name and my school.

Someone had found the print shop's phone number.

My professor was at the kitchen table in her robe, and she didn't say a word as she turned her laptop around.

The video was open on it.

"She didn't say you hugged her," my professor said. "She didn't say you fed her and let her cry on your shoulder."

"I know."

"That is a very clean edit."

"It isn't an edit. She just left things out."

"That's what an edit is, Saskia."

I sat down.

I felt the old feeling, the one from childhood, coming up from my stomach.

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