Freya
The phone felt cold in my hand as I stood alone in the quiet open space. My heart was beating very fast. The words from the DNA testing center played continuously in my head, but they made no sense to me.
‘Lily is not your child. There is no blood connection between you.’
I wanted to scream at them that it was a lie. How could that be true?
I had believed with everything in me that Lily was mine. I had been so sure. The strong feeling I had toward her couldn’t have been wrong, could it?
But I guess science does not lie. I had no blood link to the little girl I loved like my own.
My legs felt weak and wobbly. I reached out and held a tree to keep myself from falling. Everything around me felt strange, like the whole world had shifted in one second. How could my love for Lily, my
