Chapter 11

The speaker was my birth father, Emmett Miller. After I came home, Emmett treated me fairly well. I had gotten everything Roxanne was getting from the family. But my birth mother, Yvonne Jackson, was indifferent toward me. Her beautiful brow was tightly furrowed, her lovely lips moving to say words that I found jarring. "Dear, why are you so worried about Joanne? She's married into the Sanders family now. They have way more resources than we do! What you should be worrying about is Roxanne's future." To Yvonne, marrying into the Sanders family was like marrying into ancient nobility. She assumed my life was smooth sailing now. Emmett frowned and argued back. "She's always been sensible. How could she suddenly stop answering her phone? Could something have happened to her?" His heart had been racing these past few days. He felt like something was wrong. Especially since Roxanne's birthday night two days ago, he couldn't sleep at all. Yvonne couldn't sleep either, but her insomnia