They Regretted It After I Gave Up Chapter 19

They Regretted It After I Gave Up Chapter 19

It wasn’t that she didn’t want to tell me.

It was that she didn’t know how.

She couldn’t tell me I had a twin sister whom she had given away.

And she couldn’t tell me that for all these years, she had been drowning in guilt.

Now, she would never be able to forgive herself.

Because she had killed her other daughter with her own hands.

A month later, the Larkin Scholarship recipients were announced.

Tessa’s name was on the list.

But she turned it down.

She went to a college in Texas instead, far away from home.

No one knew why she changed her mind.

Maybe it was guilt.

Maybe it was fear.

Or maybe it was because she knew that acceptance letter from Harvard was never really hers to begin with.

When Mom and Dad found out she had given up the scholarship, they didn’t speak for a long time.

Later, Mom asked Dad, “Do you think she hates us?”

Dad said, “I don’t know.”

Mom said again, “She should hate us.”