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.”
must have been too.
I nodded silently.
frowned. “Did she commit
And she didn’t have depression. Four years ago, she accidentally fell from
searched half the city before finding Rachel in
abroad for treatment and would cut off all contact
all over her body. She looked
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hard
accidentally fallen and was still alive. So
What were they hiding?
accidentally but they said
hands balled into fists. “I’ve seen Laurel Rose crying on TV about her sister’s ‘depression.
Rachel’s phone. “If Laurel Rose really is Rachel’s
me.”
anyone how cruel Laurel Rose had
That first day, I saw the most horrifying wounds I’d ever
me. My sister just needs to cry
dare visit me.
me is my uncle, but he has his own
watch over me.”
I opened the Notes
screen filled with text,
notes were all
detail of our time
at that seaside hospital, writing down
diary, preserving every
the screen, Ethan whispered: “Damn, Audrey… your friend really cared
was already crying. “Yeah, she really
We
lived comfortably here.
branded her as suicidal and declared
knock at the door interrupted
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