I slid down to the floor as my legs bucked under me unable to hold my weight any longer. I would not have believed what was written in that story on my tablet coz words are just words nor if anyone were to tell me that Gloriana is not my biological mother coz anyone could say things like that to create a rift in a family, but the brand ‘I’ on her right wrist was proof enough to shatter my belief that Gloriana is my mother. I never thought that I would have a birth mother and a different woman who pretends to be my mother. I have heard and seen families where there are two wives or two husbands, it is exceedingly rare though, so rare that there are only two such families in Chapter One. I have heard of cases where a woman with a Fertile Brand is unable to have a child and a woman with an