After I Stopped Loving Them

Her own parents had her locked inside a psychiatric ward and left her there to die, all to favor a sweet-faced orphan who knew how to fake tears. Now she has returned, reborn at age twelve, having given up her capacity to love in exchange for a second chance at life. She refuses to plead, refuses to struggle, and claims she no longer feels anything at all. Yet her former family is beginning to feel that they are the ones slowly unraveling.