This time, Mom and Dad didn't back down.
They formally ended Mia's adoption, removed her from the Blackwood Pack registry, and banished her from Blackwood territory.
She was sent back to her biological parents and forced to take back her original surname, Gray.
Even then, I couldn't bring myself to put away my little notebook.
I carried it everywhere, constantly adding new possibilities to the pages.
By then, I'd come up with 100 different ways Mia Gray might try to get back at me.
One day, while I was on a call with Adrian, I told him she might even have someone kidnap me.
He laughed. "Sis, you're thinking way too much. Mia's awful, but she's not stupid enough to kidnap you in broad daylight."
I didn't answer.
Instead, through the phone, Adrian heard Mia's voice.
"Mom, don't you
