The Phoenix Sisters Rise

The social worker cleared her throat, her voice tight with forced professionalism.

"Jocelyn, Stella, we have some incredible news."

I looked at my sister, Stella, and a cold dread crept up my spine.

This was the beginning of the end; I had lived this moment before.

In my last life, this was the day our biological families found us, only to tear us apart and send us to separate hells.

I remembered the Clarks, my so-called family who let my "sister" Nicole frame me, break my leg, and destroy my track career, then threw me away into a life of abuse.