Chapter 5 - The Daughter Who DisappearedBefore David was born, his mother had another child.
A little girl named Emily.
Emily died when she was barely a month old.
Doctors called it SIDS.
But after Emily's death, something inside David's mother broke.
She became obsessed with losing the people she loved.
When David was born, that obsession transformed into possession.
"He became her entire world," Helen explained. "Not her son. Her possession."
Then came Leah.
And eventually, a baby girl.
Helen's voice trembled.
"Your mother doesn't see this baby as a child. She sees her as Emily coming back. And she believes the baby will take you away from her."
David sat completely still.
Suddenly, every manipulation made sense.
Every guilt trip.
Every boundary she had crossed.
Every attempt to isolate him from Leah.
His mother wasn't fighting Leah.
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She was fighting a thirty-year-old ghost.
And his unborn daughter had become the target.
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