If mention of abandonment, parent issues and self harm triggers you, you might want to avoid reading the flashback part of the chapter (in italics).
I repeat, TRIGGER WARNING for the following:
-abandonment
-parent issues
-SELF HARM
Author's PoV:
-About seven years ago-
The one secret that Anna had hidden from the world was that she had a little sister- Grace.
She was the love child of Anna's mother and my step father and only five years younger to her. Anna's last memory of her half sister was when she was two. A little toddler.
That was when her mother left without any explanation, completely abandoned her and left. Anna was seven then, and Grace only two.
The reason she hid it from everyone she had ever known was not because of anything else, but because unlike her, Grace didn
