I never imagined that my mother’s will would mention a twelve-year-old girl I had never even heard of. The lawyer explained that her name was Violet, and she had been living with my mother in secret for two years. I was stunned.
At first, it felt like a complication I wasn’t prepared for—but then I found a hidden clause, written in my mother’s own hand. It revealed that this was more than an inheritance. It was a test, a chance for redemption, and the beginning of a story I never knew my mother had been writing.
That’s the moment my life changed forever.