Echoes of an Empty Home

Summary

My parents were famous. I only ever saw them on television.

They were always on the front lines of war zones, claiming the environment was too dangerous, so they left me in the countryside with my grandmother.

But later, they adopted their deceased colleague’s daughter.

They brought her to live with them, pouring all the love and compensation they owed me onto her.

She became their precious darling, never having to look at her parents through a cold screen.

Years later, when they finally remembered I existed, I had already survived a severe fever that burned away any remaining affection…