MY SISTER GAVE UP HER FOSTER DAUGHTER AFTER HAVING A BIO SON – IF ONLY I KNEW THAT SHE WOULD ANSWER FOR THIS IMMEDIATELY.
We hadn’t seen Erin in months. When she gave birth to a baby boy, the whole family traveled to celebrate!
Gifts in hand, I was just as excited to meet the newborn and my goddaughter, Lily.
Except… she wasn’t there.
“Where’s Lily?” I asked.
Erin froze, glanced at her boyfriend, then shrugged.
“Oh. I gave her back.”
Silence.
“You—what?” My stomach dropped.
“I always wanted a boy. Now I have one. Why would I need a daughter?”
I felt sick. “You GAVE HER BACK?! She’s a child, not a return item!”
She rolled her eyes. “Relax. She wasn’t really mine anyway. Just… temporary.”
That’s when I snapped.
Lily wasn’t temporary—she was also my goddaughter, the little girl who filled the void left by my miscarriages.
“TEMPORARY?! You let her call you Mom, held her in your arms, and threw her away the second you got your ‘real’ kid?!”
Erin scoffed. “She was a foster kid, okay?”
I was shaking with rage.
Suddenly, we heard sharp knocks on the door
