The Daughter She Never Chose Chapter 12By Novel7s / June 23, 2026 The Daughter She Never Chose Chapter 12Dad’s eyes gleamed with a sickening excitement.“I knew it. You never quit. It was all a lie!”“Good thing we’re not stupid. We asked around. Found someone inside the company who talked.”I hadn’t expected them to stalk me.I stepped back.“You’re the ones who disowned me. So what do you want now?”Mom’s smile was a thin, nasty line.“You think it works like that? You don’t get to just walk away.”“I brought you into this world. That means you owe me for life. And that debt never goes away.”“You owe us two houses and Julian’s wedding fund. I want it all back. Now.”“Or I march right into your lobby and tell every single person there what kind of daughter you really are.”“We’ll see who wants to hire you after that.”I laughed.She’d never once held back with me. Not once.There was no love in her. Not for me.But in a way, it made things easier. The less she cared, the easier it was to walk away forever.“Be my guest.”I folded my arms and waited.Mom’s face twisted. Then she threw herself right onto the pavement.This was an ambush.The second the stream went live, Mom started wailing for the camera.“Somebody help me. Please, just look at what’s happening to us!”“How can a daughter do this to her own mother?”“I raised her! I sent her to college. A top school! She’s making a massive salary because of me!”“And the second she made it, she threw us out like trash. Her own family is struggling, and she won’t even look at us.”“She’s leaving us to die!”The longer she went, the harder she cried. Real tears, shaking shoulders, an Oscar-worthy performance.Dad scrubbed at his dry eyes behind the phone.“We don’t want to pressure her…”“But the family is in a bad place right now…”“My wife… she hasn’t been well. Her heart… it’s been getting worse.”He left it vague on purpose.The money was for Julian’s wedding. Everyone in that family knew it.But on camera, he made it sound like I was withholding treatment that could save her life.
