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
I nodded silently.
Ethan frowned. “Did she
dead. And she didn’t have depression. Four years ago, she accidentally
We searched half the city before finding Rachel in an SUV
he needed to take her abroad for treatment and would cut
body. She looked lifeless,
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frowned hard
was still alive. So
What were they hiding?
face hardening. “She fell accidentally but they said it was suicide? She’s alive but they
crying on TV about her sister’s ‘depression. Saying if she’d known earlier, maybe
through more photos on Rachel’s phone. “If Laurel Rose really is Rachel’s sister, nothing
me.”
how cruel
to my care. That first day, I saw the most
hear her bitter voice: “My mother doesn’t believe me. My sister just
visit
really cares about me is my uncle, but
watch over me.”
swirling, I opened the Notes app from
text, and I
notes were all
detail of our
at that seaside
a diary, preserving every
at the screen, Ethan whispered: “Damn, Audrey… your friend
crying. “Yeah, she really
we believed she was living well with her uncle. We never imagined her family had shipped her off
lived comfortably here.
as suicidal and declared
at the door
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