The Backup Daughter
Language: en
When I went back to my parents' house for Sunday dinner, my mom was bustling around in the kitchen. "Chloe, the iPad is acting up again. Can you take a look?" While I was fixing it, a group chat notification popped up on the screen. The group name was [Happy Family]. There were six people in the chat: my dad, my mom, my older brother Ethan, my husband Liam, and my son Noah. And Mia, the adoptive sister who found her biological parents and moved out five years ago. I was the only one not in the group. The notification was a photo my mom had just sent—a plate of Spicy Szechuan…