We Adopted a Little Girl – on Her 5th Birthday, Her Biological Mother Showed Up to Reveal a Shocking Truth About Her

We took turns sleeping in the chair by her bed. We watched cartoons at three in the morning.

We learned which nurses could get a vein on the first try. We signed forms we barely understood and pretended we weren’t terrified.

Months blurred together.

Then one afternoon, the oncologist walked in smiling.

“Her counts look great,” she said. “She’s in remission.”

“Did I win?” Sophie asked.

“You did, with a little help from the medicine,” the doctor smiled.

Sophie grinned.

“I told you my good guys were strong.”

The woman from the birthday never called. Never messaged. Never asked if Sophie was okay.

When our lawyer tried to contact her about the attempted extortion, she vanished.

She didn’t want to know if Sophie lived through the thing she’d warned us about.

She only wanted money.

Now Sophie is seven. Her hair is growing back in soft waves. She runs everywhere.

She sings in the car. She argues about bedtime like a tiny lawyer.

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