The Inheritance
Family Drama · fiction

The Family She Built Instead

At thirty-one weeks pregnant, I had already learned not to expect much compassion from my family. What I had not learned was how completely they could turn their backs on me when I needed them most. That lesson came on a Thursday evening over dinner. My name is Emily Hale. At the time, I was thirty-one weeks pregnant with my first child, a...

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Genre
Family Drama
Audience
Adult readers
Chapters
6
Fiction status
fiction
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The Inheritance

Chapters

  1. 01Chapter 1
  2. 02Chapter 2
  3. 03Chapter 3
  4. 04Chapter 4
  5. 05Chapter 5
  6. 06Chapter 6

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