Chapter 1

A Glimmer in the Dark Chapter 01

The thing Mom said to me most growing up was,

“Once you’re dead, I’ll get married,” Mom always told me.

I was born rotten. She wanted me dead, so I made damn sure to stay alive just to spite her.

She didn’t want attention, so I got into fights at school every damn day. I knocked out one of the mayor’s daughter’s teeth, and the media blew it up and plastered it all over the internet.

That was until Mom showed up in front of the cameras, her ghost-pale face drawing every eye.

“Isn’t that the woman from sixteen years ago? The one who was assaulted? I thought she was long dead. Turns out she’s not only alive, she even gave birth to that man’s daughter,” a bystander said.