THE FINAL KARMA
The father looked at Isabella. Then at Sophie.
“I knew,” he whispered.
The room went cold.
“I saw the pregnancy test in the trash that morning,” he confessed. “I knew it was Isabella’s. But Isabella was my favorite. She was the one who was going to college.”
“I used Maria as a scapegoat because she was the ‘difficult’ child anyway.”
Maria didn’t cry. She smiled—a sharp, dangerous smile.
“Thank you,” she said. “Now I don’t have to feel guilty about what happens next.”
Maria walked out, taking Sophie with her. She sued for the return of her inheritance and severed every tie.
Isabella and her parents were left in a house filled with nothing but the ghost of a girl they threw away.
Maria didn’t get her childhood back, but she got something better. She got the daughter she never had to give birth to.