Her Place in His Heart by Isabella Reed

Chapter85

I was done with life when I decided to jump off the roof with tears in my eyes.

And where was my family?

My parents were happy at their adoptive daughter’s first day of high school celebration.

My brother was there too, clicking away with the camera and welcoming his new sister to middle school.

As kids, they always had a soft spot for Ashley Schmitt. Being an orphan, she’d always get a bit more of their sympathy and support.

+ was the one who got told to back off if I ever wanted to take back a toy of mine. Any fight was just me being a brat.

Ashley, with no parents of her own, was living up the life that should’ve been mine.

I had family, but they were always around Ashley.

I

When I finally wised up, I understood that what they called fairness was really just being partial.

Never in a million years did I think I’d get a second chance in life from the universe. So when I was reborn, I decided this time to just not give a damn about anything.

When I saw my folks holding Ashley’s hand, leading her up to my brother and me, it hit me. I was back in the past, a five-

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the past. I was re- living the same

a bad car crash a few days before she was brought. They were my mom’s best friends, so

now,” my mom had said, smoothing Ashley’s

were wide and eager, checking out our home. She looked pretty

could complain, she’d play the poor little orphan card to snag whatever she fancied from

I was surprised; I did not expect her to be so

into your family, too. I’ll grab whatever I like, and you’ll end up with nothing.”

understood she did not want me as a big sister; she wanted

me furious, and I’d just get into fights with her, but as soon as we fought, she’d play the victim, bawling her. eyes out to get

denied everything she’d said,

me apologize to her and then

would sometimes make me skip my

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kneel for an hour.

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something of mine, I should not be selfish and I should just give

my toys, and everything were handed over to Ashley. But that wasn’t enough for

said, she’d take it

unfair past, why did the universe want me to relive it?

are fair, and we’ll love

are just a bigger, happy family now.” That

any resentment, or else I’d be the selfish

I tried to be nice to her, that first day, I was really trying my

some of my toys, I even offered her to sleep with me in case she was afraid. She would just smile at me but