Chapter 5

Mom said, "She's pitiful, but what about Kyla? She was seriously ill, yet always so kind to Yolanda. If Yolanda hadn't kept picking on her, would we have treated Yolanda badly?

"Ultimately, everything happened because of her. Sometimes surgeries fail. Her death wasn't anyone's responsibility.

"You have no right to point fingers at us. I'm just a mother who wants to protect her child. What's so wrong about that?"

Her words sounded so casual, but they cut through me like a knife straight to the heart.

She said that she was just a mother protecting her child. But I wondered…