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 but

Claude Hart's home, watching him weep

died? And

I saw Claude rushing out, falling to his knees in front of

Max was dead too?

to console Claude: "Claude, people can't come back

lost! You killed Claire! If it hadn't been for your kidnapping, none of this would have happened," Claude pushed

kidnapped me? Was this my spirit revisiting the

I only meant to

she'd die!" Kate sobbed uncontrollably, kneeling at my

never intended

towards Kate full of loathing: "Stop pretending.

I wanted to save her, but

saying she

when someone said she was there, I believed it and took you

claimed

really don't know. When I

if it was Claire