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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with the memories of the past. I was re- living the same nightmare.

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

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

out our home. She

orphan card to snag whatever she

was surprised; I did not expect her to be so young and so evil.

you’ll end up with nothing.” Ashley. would say this to me when it was just

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

I’d just get into fights with her, but as soon as we fought,

said, accusing me

her and then I’d be

make me skip my

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make me kneel

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get it. If she wanted something of mine, I should not be selfish and I should just give it to her.

Ashley. But that wasn’t enough for her. She also took

said, she’d take it all from me.

such an unfair past, why did the universe want me to relive

We are fair, and we’ll love you both the same.” That was what mom used

now.” That was what dad said that day.

allowed to fight back or show any resentment, or else I’d be the selfish one. I was only a month

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

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