Inside the jacket
My mother was obsessed with playing the saintly, self-sacrificing mother. To show the world her boundless virtue, she spent years posting updates online about caring for her sick adopted daughter.
"Bella, darling, even if it costs me every penny I own, Mom will cure you."
To keep that promise, she turned me, her biological daughter, into a walking blood bank, bleeding me dry over and over again.
Just as her followers were weeping over her angelic devotion, Bella relapsed and urgently needed another transfusion.
