My Stepfather Was Actually My Biological Father

The day I got my college acceptance letter, the silver arowana we’d been raising in the aquarium for five years suddenly died, its scales bursting open.

That evening, over dinner, I announced I wanted to cut ties with my father completely, and the whole table went silent.

My grandmother slapped me across the face before I could even take a breath.

“Ungrateful brat! Have you lost your mind? Your father treats you so well, and now that you’ve made it into college, you turn around and betray him?”