They Told Me I Was Adopted, I Was The Real One All Along Chapter 06

They Told Me I Was Adopted, I Was The Real One All Along Chapter 06

“Leukemia… terminal?” 

Dad stared at the records, his voice dry and rough. 

His eyes were wide, blood vessels standing out 

across the whites. 

“That can’t be. She never told us she was sick.” 

“The day she left, she said she was going to the 

organ–donor center.” 

Captain Diaz gave a cold laugh and pulled a thin. 

card from the evidence bag. 

“She went there to sign this.” 

An organ–donor card. 

It stated that Claire Whitmore had registered as an 

organ and tissue donor after death, including her 

corneas and every usable organ. 

My handwritten signature filled the lower right 

corner. 

The letters trembled with the fever and weakness 

that had wracked me that day. 

“Most of her organs had already failed. Only her 

corneas were unaffected by the cancer and 

suitable for transplant.” 

Mom collapsed onto the floor. Then she began to 

scream hysterically. 

“She’s lying! She did it on purpose!” 

“She was trying to punish us for lying to her for 

nineteen years!” 

“Claire, get up! You don’t get to die and scare me. 

like this!” 

She crawled toward the table and tried to shake 

my body. 

I hovered above her and watched her collapse. 

without pity. 

How ironic. 

While I was alive, she screamed at me for 

touching her favorite carpet. 

After I died, she wanted to crush my body against 

her chest. 

Two female officers pulled Mom away. 

Mia stood in the doorway, covering her mouth with. 

a handkerchief as tears fell. 

“Why was Claire so foolish? Even if she was sick, 

she should have told Mom and Dad.” 

“Maybe she thought I had taken her place and 

didn’t want to burden us.” 

Dad whipped around and glared at Mia like an 

enraged lion. 

“Shut up!” 

Mia flinched. The false innocence nearly fell off 

her face. 

Dad shoved past an officer, rushed out of the 

morgue, and grabbed Hank and Linda as they 

were brought in. 

“You two animals! I told you to look after her. What 

did you do to her?” 

Dad punched Hank in the face. 

Hank’s nose gushed blood, but he started 

screaming. 

“Mr. Whitmore, why are you hitting me?” 

“Your assistant told us the girl was disobedient in 

the city and that we should discipline her hard, as 

long as we didn’t kill her!” 

“How were we supposed to know she had a 

terminal illness? She was feverish and bleeding. 

We thought she was faking and locked her in the 

shed.” 

Linda threw herself onto the floor and began 

making a scene too. 

“That’s right! Rich people like you use poor people 

as weapons, then blame us when someone dies?” 

“If you hadn’t made us pretend to be her relatives, 

she wouldn’t have died in our shack!” 

Every word struck Dad and Mom like a knife. 

They had built the lie with their own hands. 

They had sent me to hell themselves. 

Dad let go and staggered backward until he hit the 

cold wall. 

His eyes moved past the crowd to the 

examination table again.. 

“Take her away…” 

He murmured as if speaking to the police, or 

confessing to me. 

Three days later, my ashes were brought back to 

the Whitmore estate. 

There was no funeral, and no friends or relatives. 

were notified. 

Dad thought the circumstances of my death were 

too humiliating and would become a joke in 

business circles. 

The estate fell into oppressive silence. 

Mom sat on the sofa, clutching my urn, her eyes. 

unfocused. 

Then the Whitmore family’s private attorney 

walked in. 

“Mr. and Mrs. Whitmore.” 

He removed a document from his briefcase. 

“Claire asked me to hold on to her will and a letter 

before she left for the country.” 

“She said I was to give them to you if anything 

happened to her.” 

Dad jerked up and snatched the papers. 

The envelope was thin. 

Inside was a bank card and a page covered in 

writing. 

“Dad. Mom.” 

“This is the eighty thousand dollars I saved 

waiting tables and tutoring.” 

“I paid seventy thousand as the down payment on 

a cemetery plot outside the city. I still owe ten 

thousand. The password is Mia’s birthday.” 

“Please help me pay the rest. I don’t want to die 

without a place to live.” 

“Also…” 

Dad’s voice stopped. 

His hands began to shake violently, and his eyes 

filled. 

Mom sensed something was wrong and snatched the page from him. 

The final line was written in an unnervingly calm 

hand: 

“That night, when I went to get water, I heard what you said in the bedroom.” 

“I didn’t cry, and I don’t blame you.” 

“I know I’m your biological daughter. I know Mia is the one you adopted.” 

“Since you love her so much, I won’t ask you to save me. And I’m giving your family back to you.”

“Leukemia… terminal?” 

Dad stared at the records, his voice dry and rough. 

His eyes were wide, blood vessels standing out 

across the whites. 

“That can’t be. She never told us she was sick.” 

“The day she left, she said she was going to the 

organ–donor center.” 

Captain Diaz gave a cold laugh and pulled a thin. 

card from the evidence bag. 

“She went there to sign this.” 

An organ–donor card. 

It stated that Claire Whitmore had registered as an 

organ and tissue donor after death, including her 

corneas and every usable organ. 

My handwritten signature filled the lower right 

corner. 

The letters trembled with the fever and weakness 

that had wracked me that day. 

“Most of her organs had already failed. Only her 

corneas were unaffected by the cancer and 

suitable for transplant.” 

Mom collapsed onto the floor. Then she began to 

scream hysterically. 

“She’s lying! She did it on purpose!” 

“She was trying to punish us for lying to her for 

nineteen years!” 

“Claire, get up! You don’t get to die and scare me. 

like this!” 

She crawled toward the table and tried to shake 

my body. 

I hovered above her and watched her collapse. 

without pity. 

How ironic. 

While I was alive, she screamed at me for 

touching her favorite carpet. 

After I died, she wanted to crush my body against 

her chest. 

Two female officers pulled Mom away. 

Mia stood in the doorway, covering her mouth with. 

a handkerchief as tears fell. 

“Why was Claire so foolish? Even if she was sick, 

she should have told Mom and Dad.” 

“Maybe she thought I had taken her place and 

didn’t want to burden us.” 

Dad whipped around and glared at Mia like an 

enraged lion. 

“Shut up!” 

Mia flinched. The false innocence nearly fell off 

her face. 

Dad shoved past an officer, rushed out of the 

morgue, and grabbed Hank and Linda as they 

were brought in. 

“You two animals! I told you to look after her. What 

did you do to her?” 

Dad punched Hank in the face. 

Hank’s nose gushed blood, but he started 

screaming. 

“Mr. Whitmore, why are you hitting me?” 

“Your assistant told us the girl was disobedient in 

the city and that we should discipline her hard, as 

long as we didn’t kill her!” 

“How were we supposed to know she had a 

terminal illness? She was feverish and bleeding. 

We thought she was faking and locked her in the 

shed.” 

Linda threw herself onto the floor and began 

making a scene too. 

“That’s right! Rich people like you use poor people 

as weapons, then blame us when someone dies?” 

“If you hadn’t made us pretend to be her relatives, 

she wouldn’t have died in our shack!” 

Every word struck Dad and Mom like a knife. 

They had built the lie with their own hands. 

They had sent me to hell themselves. 

Dad let go and staggered backward until he hit the 

cold wall. 

His eyes moved past the crowd to the 

examination table again.. 

“Take her away…” 

He murmured as if speaking to the police, or 

confessing to me. 

Three days later, my ashes were brought back to 

the Whitmore estate. 

There was no funeral, and no friends or relatives. 

were notified. 

Dad thought the circumstances of my death were 

too humiliating and would become a joke in 

business circles. 

The estate fell into oppressive silence. 

Mom sat on the sofa, clutching my urn, her eyes. 

unfocused. 

Then the Whitmore family’s private attorney 

walked in. 

“Mr. and Mrs. Whitmore.” 

He removed a document from his briefcase. 

“Claire asked me to hold on to her will and a letter 

before she left for the country.” 

“She said I was to give them to you if anything 

happened to her.” 

Dad jerked up and snatched the papers. 

The envelope was thin. 

Inside was a bank card and a page covered in 

writing. 

“Dad. Mom.” 

“This is the eighty thousand dollars I saved 

waiting tables and tutoring.” 

“I paid seventy thousand as the down payment on 

a cemetery plot outside the city. I still owe ten 

thousand. The password is Mia’s birthday.” 

“Please help me pay the rest. I don’t want to die 

without a place to live.” 

“Also…” 

Dad’s voice stopped. 

His hands began to shake violently, and his eyes 

filled. 

Mom sensed something was wrong and snatched the page from him. 

The final line was written in an unnervingly calm 

hand: 

“That night, when I went to get water, I heard what you said in the bedroom.” 

“I didn’t cry, and I don’t blame you.” 

“I know I’m your biological daughter. I know Mia is the one you adopted.” 

“Since you love her so much, I won’t ask you to save me. And I’m giving your family back to you.”

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