My Mother Tried to Take My Newborn for an $80,000 Birthday Party. Then the Man Who Burst Into My Hospital Room Revealed Why She Had Really Come.

me for having fewer of my own.

“I don’t think I’m better than you,” I said quietly.

“Yes, you do.”

“No. I think you’re asking a woman who was cut open yesterday to fund an eighty-thousand-dollar birthday party.”

“Stop saying it like that!”

“How else should I say it?”

She moved so fast that I barely registered what was happening.

Brielle lunged toward the bed and grabbed my forearm.

Pain shot through me as I twisted away.

“Don’t touch me!”

Clara woke screaming.

Panic tore through me.

I instinctively curled