Veronica’s breath caught, her pulse quickening. Those words—so calm, so final—rang in her mind, unraveling the comfort she had worked so hard to rebuild. At that moment, Veronica felt confused beyond her mind. Why was Esther acting like this?
Esther’s strange words and behavior started putting seeds of doubts in Veronica’s head. This isn’t what she had imagined adopting a daughter would be like. But Veronica dismissed it, chalking it up to her own paranoia and the fact that Esther was in a completely different country and environment.