My Sister Abandoned Our Family 14 Years Ago, Leaving Us Penniless — Now, She Claims the House I Inherited

She had no insurance, no money.

Mom, bless her heart, was a mess. The thought of her fatherless daughter in pain was unbearable. Without a second thought, she emptied our entire savings account.

Emma, living with her fiancé in a city a few hours away, promised to pay us back as soon as she recovered. We wired her the money the same night.

Then, silence. Calls went unanswered, texts hung unread.

Panic gnawed at us with every passing day. We contacted the hospital, her apartment complex, and even her friends.

All dead ends.

It turned out Emma hadn’t just vanished; her fiancé had disappeared too. The trail went cold, leaving us with nothing but debt.

For years, we clung to the hope that maybe, just maybe, she’d come clean. But Emma, the sister who promised us the world, had vanished without a trace.

We kept searching for her but found no leads.

Since that day, I became obsessed with one thing: securing our future. I buried myself in textbooks, taking on student loans to pay for college.
Every free moment was spent hunched over a computer screen, devouring programming languages. Sleep became a luxury, replaced by the relentless pursuit of knowledge.

Years blurred into one another, punctuated by the relentless click of keyboards and the exhaustion that clung to me like a second skin.

Finally, the day arrived: a job offer from a prestigious software development firm, the salary a dream come true.

It wasn’t easy. It wasn’t easy at all.

I have worked so hard to be where I am today, and now Emma’s here expecting us to forget everything. How could I just share the inheritance with her?