My Stepdaughter Started Bringing Home Expensive Clothes and Gadgets—When I Found Out How She Got Them, I Went Pale
When my stepdaughter Lily started coming home with pricey clothes and gadgets, I assumed her mom was spoiling her. The truth was much worse. I never planned on being a stepmother, but when I married Mark three years ago, I got his 16-year-old daughter too. Lily was polite but distant, and while we coexisted peacefully,…