Married at First Sight

Chapter 102

The despair, anger, sadness, and helplessness did not go amiss between the lines. Tears filled Serenity‘s eyes as she flipped through her sister‘s diary while accounts of the past flooded her mind.

Dad‘s side of the family and Mom‘s side of the family were ripping each other apart over the insurance money. All of them were trying to get a bigger cut. No one cared about Serenity and me. No one talked about adopting us and taking care of us. Mom and Dad were dead, but all they could think about was money. What about our feelings? Is this what they call a family?

Mom, Dad, come home. Do you know what your daughters are going through now? How could you leave me and Serenity behind?

It was raining. Was God feeling sorry because my sister and I lost our parents? We didn‘t have a mom and dad anymore. I cried for Mom and Dad, but they could no longer hear me. I looked at Serenity‘s clueless face and cried. She cried too.

Serenity had been asking me when Mom and Dad were coming home. She missed them.

held my sister and cried. I told her that Mom

us. We have become orphans,

and Grandmom said that we won‘t owe them anything if we agree to give them six hundred thousand dollars. I mean, they have other children who can help with their

is more important than family. Is money more important than their granddaughters? The blood money was an exchange for their son and daughter–in–law‘s lives. Don‘t they have any consideration for their son and daughter–in law with all that fuss about money? Oh, I guess they don‘t

took the money. Granddad and Grandmom got six hundred thousand dollars, and Mom‘s side of the family didn‘t want to miss out either, so they wanted the remaining half of the insurance money. What are we going to do if they take away all of Mom

to us for our future and education. In the end, Mom‘s parents took four hundred thousand dollars. They also said we didn‘t have to be responsible for them anymore and vice versa. Mom wasn‘t their biological daughter anyway. The four hundred thousand dollars was compensation for

said that since Mom and Dad are gone, the house now belongs to them. I tried to refute it in tears. Mom and Dad built that house. Why can‘t Serenity and

argue over Grandmom. My uncles and

smashed Mom‘s photo frame and said they‘d burn Mom and Dad‘s pictures if we didn‘t leave right