They panicked. “You’re our own flesh and blood! We’re your real parents. How can you walk away just when you’ve made it?“}
“Real parents?“}
I held up the arranged marriage documents.}
Their breathing faltered.§
“The moment I succeeded, you struck a deal with the wealthiest family and sold me off without a word. And you still think you deserve to call yourselves my parents?“>
Their faces turned pale.
“That was, we were trying to find you a good match-”
I turned around, never once looking back.§
They lunged toward me, but my bodyguards blocked them.
As I stepped through the gates, I heard their cries echoing from behind, desperate, raw. “Daughter! We were wrong! Please come back!“}
But I never looked back.
t’had already said it: this life, I’d live for myself.”
I cut all ties with Michael and his family, severed completely.}
But not long after, the police came and took me away.
Not because I broke the law, but because Michael had taken someone hostage, and his only demand was to see me.”
When I arrived, Emily was dangling from the rooftop, her pregnant belly trembling, her body swaying precariously in the wind; one wrong move, and she’d fall.
She sobbed in agony, blood streaming down her legs.
“Michael! Let me down! I’m going into labor! These are your children!“}
My breath hitched.}
“Michael! What are you doing?!“}
He looked down at me, red–eyed, a twisted smile tugging at his lips.
“Abigail, you finally came.”
He held the rope tied around Emily.
“If it hadn’t been for this bitch, you and I would’ve had everything in this life. I know you hate me, so let me fix it. I’ll get rid of the one who hurt you. How about that?”
“No!!”
Emily shrieked, clinging desperately.}
“Michael! I’ll stay away from you both! Just let me go! I swear I won’t come back again!”
“Shut up!”
His hand shot forward and gripped her throat.
“If it weren’t for you, she would’ve forgiven me! You stole her life, and now you dare to carry my child?! How the hell do you expect me to face her?!”
My blood ran cold.}
Those words.
He had said them before when I was bleeding out on a hospital bed, screaming through labor, all alone in the last moments of my previous life.
The rope snapped.
Emily plummeted from the rooftop, crashing right at my feet.
She clutched her swollen belly, coughing up blood in thick streams.
“Emily!“}]
I dropped to my knees, reaching for her.”
But her face was already soaked with tears and blood. Her voice trembled, faint and broken.
“If I had known… I would’ve… listened to you… No wonder… you didn’t… want him…”
And just like that, she died in my arms.}
The medical team rushed in, but it was already far too late.}
Michael was dragged down by the police. His wrists in cuffs, his face stained red with fury and grief, he stared straight at me.“}
9:20 AM
“Abigail… she’s gone. From now on, we can-”
I cut him off with a fierce strike across the face.
The officers quickly held us apart.
I clenched my jaw, my voice trembling with fury.
“You’re just a coward! No one ever forced you to choose! Every single decision was yours!“}
“You couldn’t let go, couldn’t commit, couldn’t stand up for anyone, so you lashed out at the ones who stayed!“}
“You’re nothing but pathetic. A monster who only knew how to destroy!”
He stared at me, stunned, shattered.
Tears slipped from the corners of his eyes, and then, without warning, he erupted into wild, uncontrollable laughter.}
As the police dragged him away, he laughed up at the sky like a madman.
“Yes, I’m a coward! I’m scum! Heaven, give me one more chance to start over!“}
His cries echoed, but no one listened.
He was sentenced to death.
Before his execution, he begged to see me one last time.
I never went
The day he faced the firing squad, the sun blazed high in the sky, warm and indifferent.
built a grave for Emily.
Not for her but for the children in her belly, so they could rest in peace.
As fate would have it, she had carried twins, too.
Burying her felt like laying my own unborn children to rest.
At last, they had a home.
From that day forward, I swept away every trace of the past like dust in the wind.
And I walked on toward a life that belonged solely to me.
