Chapter 88 Chapter 4 Chapter 4 After I got out of the hospital, Mom became paranoid. She was convinced the Ashfords were going to come after us. “We need to leave,” she muttered, throwing clothes into garbage bags. “This city’s done. Too many people know us p> She told me
Chapter 87 Chapter 3 Chapter 3 The Ashfords paid out, but they had one condition: Mom and I had to come to their house to sign a formal settlement agreement. Only then would it be over. Mom thought that was perfectly reasonable. After all, she’d gotten her money. She dressed
Chapter 86 Chapter 2 Chapter 2 I spent the next six months flat on my back. With both legs shattered, Mom couldn’t drag me out to run scams anymore. She hired the cheapest unlicensed “doctor” in town. He did a half-assed job splinting me up, and every day she’d slather
Chapter 85 Chapter 1 Chapter 1 My mom was a professional insurance scammer-and I was her favorite tool. Every day, she’d stake out busy intersections, eyes locked on the traffic flow like a hawk hunting prey. The second a car slowed down, she’d shove me straight into its path. Once
Chapter 84 Chapter 9 Chapter 9 Fortunately, the police were still there, so before she could get near me, they tackled her to the ground. After the police took Sloane and her mother away, Damon stood motionless in place. Looking at his ashen face, I spoke softly: “Is there anything
Chapter 83 Chapter 8 Chapter 8 As soon as my brother finished speaking, Sloane crawled over to my bedside and began kowtowing frantically. “Miss Carter, please spare my mom. Please, it was all my fault. I shouldn’t have had those terrible thoughts p> “Please, Miss Carter, spare my mother. I
Chapter 82 Chapter 7 Chapter 7 Damon stopped struggling, and my brother glanced at him: “Let him go p> Damon’s eyes were locked on my face. “Tell me, who is this affair partner p> “If this is your brother, then whose baby were you carrying p> “Chloe, you’ve been lying
Chapter 81 Chapter 6 Chapter 6 I looked toward the hospital room door, and there was my brother. Knox Carter. All my pent-up grief came pouring out, and I couldn’t help sobbing. Seeing my reaction infuriated Damon. He charged toward the door, swinging his fist at my brother. Several bodyguards
Chapter 80 Chapter 5 Chapter 5 The abortion was done under general anesthesia. When I woke up, I had no idea how much time had passed. I put my hand on my stomach, and tears started flowing without me even realizing it. This morning I’d been so excited to welcome
Chapter 79 Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Damon didn’t hold back at all. My head slammed into the corner of the coffee table. The pain was so intense that everything went black, and I passed out cold. I don’t know how long I was out, but voices woke me up. “Mom,
Chapter 78 Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Damon glanced at me with pure disgust. “Tell you? And then what p> “What would you have done? Secretly gotten an abortion and kept cheating on me p> “Chloe, you’ve got some nerve asking me questions right now p> This whole situation was spiraling
Chapter 77 Chapter 2 Chapter 2 We both turned toward the voice. It was Sloane-Damon’s childhood friend who’d been in love with him since forever. She threw a stack of photos at my feet and started yelling. “I was at the Marriott downtown for a business meeting a couple days
Chapter 76 Chapter 1 Chapter 1 Three years of marriage, and I was finally pregnant. Walking out of the hospital, I couldn’t stop staring at the ultrasound images, clutching them like they were made of gold. This was the baby I’d been dreaming about for so damn long! I practically
Chapter 75 Chapter 7 Chapter 7 After that suffocating, dead-silent exam room, I finally let out the breath I’d been holding. Getting a second chance at life made me treasure school so much more. I’d poured even more energy into studying than I ever did the first time around, and
Chapter 74 Chapter 6 Chapter 6 I bought a fancy fruit basket and headed to the hospital the news mentioned. Right at the entrance, I ran into Serena. Her eyes were red like she’d been crying. “Chloe, you’re here too. Let’s go in together?” she sniffled. I shook my head.
Chapter 73 Chapter 5 The price? Two cracked ribs-courtesy of his old man. How do I know? Because the whole thing made it onto the local evening news. The footage was blurred, but you could still make out how bad it got. Blood splattered on the floor. You didn’t have
Chapter 72 Chapter 4 Now I knew-it was a one dollar trinket from a street vendor. So I ordered her the same thing online. Cost me four bucks with shipping. The night of her party, the place was packed. Serena was popular-well, fake popular. Hunter was right beside her, dark
Chapter 71 Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Riiiiiing. The bell jolted me back to the present. I was scribbling notes like my life depended on it, soaking up every word. My pen didn’t stop for a second. But that burning gaze beside me? Yeah. I knew it was Hunter. Normally, between
Chapter 70 Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Coming back, I finally understood. I’d been the sunshine girl in some “fix the broken boy” story. My entire purpose was to heal him, to give everything I had. But… why? I knew I’d lived those years for real. I’d fought for a better
Chapter 69 Chapter 1 Chapter 1 I only found out after I died that I was the “redemption arc” heroine. I gave up everything for the brooding male lead-and in return, I was bullied, humiliated by his fiancée, kidnapped by his rivals p> And still, I kept trying to “heal”