My parents always branded me as a “stupid child” because I was left-handed. They yelled, b;e;at me, and thr;eat;ened me until I was forced to use my right hand. When they finally had a right-handed daughter, they abandoned me—a 10-year-old girl. Years passed. I survived, rebuilt my life, and thought that chapter was over. But when my sister turned eighteen, they shamelessly showed up at my front door. What happened next shattered me completely.
Chapter 1: The Cursed Hand The knuckles of my left hand always ache when the barometric pressure drops, a dull, thrumming reminder of a childhood spent in a state of siege. I sat in my office at St. Jude’s Memorial, the city lights shimmering through the floor-to-ceiling windows, and massaged the joint of my ring…
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