Audrey’s POV
“My Sister and I.” The world around me faded as I stared at the screen, unable to process what I was seeing
Rachel Hayes and Laurel Rose… sisters?
So Laurel Rose was the sister Rachel had mentioned, the one she had such a terrible relationship with!
“Audrey, be my sister instead. I don’t want to be sisters with my mom’s other daughter.”
“Audrey, I hate my mom’s husband, and I hate my mom’s other daughter even more… When my mom isn’t looking, they
secretly bully me.”
“Audrey, do you know why I keep spending that family’s money? Because all these scars on my body were inflicted by that sister. This is what their family owes me.”
“Audrey, I know you grew up poor and had it tough, but I envy how you can be free and have your own dreams and
aspirations. Not like me… Everything gets taken away from me, even my mother…
Rachel’s voice echoed in my mind as if she were sitting right next to me.
Because of her terrible relationship with her family, Rachel nev
respected her privacy and never pried.
entioned her relatives to anyone. Astrid and I
During those two years together, we’d only met her uncle. We knew she took her mother’s family name, Hayes. That was it.
But staring at this photo, I couldn’t believe it.
The sister who had secretly tortured Rachel all those years was Laurel Rose.
If Laurel was Rachel’s sister, it made sense she had Rachel’s phone. She’d been taking things from Rachel her entire life.
“Audrey,” Ethan said quietly. “Your friend… is Laurel Rose’s sister?”
I looked up and firmly shook my head. “No, she isn’t. Laurel Rose doesn’t deserve to be her sister.”
You’re a good person, Audrey. Your friend must have been too. How could she possibly be
I nodded silently.
“Did she
she didn’t have depression. Four years ago, she accidentally fell
the city before finding Rachel in an SUV
needed to take her abroad
over her body. She looked
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frowned hard at
had accidentally fallen and was still alive. So why did the Rose family claim
What were they hiding?
“She fell accidentally but they said it was suicide? She’s alive but they told
TV about her sister’s ‘depression. Saying if she’d known earlier, maybe her sister wouldn’t have died. It
scrolled through more photos on Rachel’s phone. “If Laurel Rose really is Rachel’s sister,
me.”
knew better than anyone how cruel
was assigned to my care. That first day, I
My sister just needs to cry once, and
even dare visit me.
person who really cares about me is my uncle, but he has his own
watch over me.”
these thoughts swirling, I opened the Notes app
with text, and I suddenly couldn’t
all about me and
from the day we met, she had recorded every detail of our time
Blake at that seaside hospital,
notes into a diary, preserving every moment in
the screen, Ethan whispered: “Damn, Audrey… your friend really cared about
already crying. “Yeah,
was living well with her uncle. We never imagined her family had shipped her
lived comfortably here.
suicidal and
knock at the door interrupted my
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