Rebirth Into My Second Chance

I stared blankly into the sky, a chilling question haunting my thoughts: had I just killed my brother?

"It's going to be okay. That wasn't a fatal shot," Max Hilton tried to reassure me, but his words were lost on me. Just then, a helicopter, having just taken off, suddenly nosedived towards the earth, crashing into the hillside ahead with a deafening explosion. It felt as though the shockwave had scattered my soul. "Oh no-" I clasped my ears as my legs gave out beneath me. "Max, did Richard plan on making a suicide pact with Hannah?"

Max didn't reply, his gaze heavy upon the site of the crash. "We need to find them, dead or alive!" he commanded.

The Hilton family's bodyguards revved up the engine, driving towards the smoldering hillside.

As I watched the flames rage, darkness overtook me, and I fainted, overwhelmed by the calamity.

That day, I discovered I was Richard's sister. That day, I had injured my own brother. In that moment, I watched my brother's plane crash.

My agony was silent, a desperate wish that this was all just a nightmare.

Even in unconsciousness, I could sense the frantic efforts around me, people trying to save me.

I didn't get why they were so urgent, but I saw Max, all battered, clutching my hand tightly and urging, "Claire, don't fall asleep."

Life seemed like a fleeting dream.

...

found myself as nothing

drifted through Claude Hart's home, watching him weep over my

I died? And

saw Claude rushing out, falling to his knees in front of mine and Max's

Max was dead too?

console Claude: "Claude, people can't come back from the

for your kidnapping, none of this would have happened," Claude pushed

kidnapped me? Was this my

meant to scare her,

Kate sobbed uncontrollably, kneeling at my grave.

never intended

full of loathing: "Stop pretending. Just stay away from me from now

it wasn't me. I wanted to save

made the call saying she was at the

looking for her, so when someone said she was there, I

claimed her

really don't know.

if it was Claire