BOOK4 Chapter10
Zoey slapped Rachel hard as the detectives stepped in to take her away.
“You monster! So it was you all along!”
Rachel continued to struggle. “It wasn’t me! You’re the one who agreed to switch her
with me, that’s why Jenna died! Why are you pretending to care now?”
“Did you really think I loved you? You were just my lapdog. I said I was kidnapped,
and you made Jenna take my place!”
“You killed Jenna, not me! What does any of this have to do with me?”
“Without you, Jenna would still be alive!”
Jackson stood there in a daze, like his soul had left his body.
His once immaculate suit was wrinkled from all the shoving, his eyes red and swollen,
looking utterly defeated.
He muttered to himself, “She’s right. I’m the real murderer.”
“I’m nothing but a monster.”
Zoey let out a bitter laugh, breaking the tense silence.
Her laughter echoed eerily in the morgue, drawing everyone’s attention.
She wiped !
ears away forcefully and pulled out a document from her coat,
throwing it in jackson’s face.
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My heart clenched. Zoey hated confrontation, but she had fought for me time and
again.
I’m the one who dragged her into this mess.
Zoey gently pulled the white sheet over my body, staring out the wind at the
sycamore trees, speaking to herself.
“Jenna didn’t have a good start in life. Her family was a bunch of parasites who
valued sons over daughters. Maybe you forgot, but when they tried to force her into
marriage, you saved her, and she said she’d repay you.”
“When your family went through tough times, she said she couldn’t stand to see you
suffer. She starved herself and drank cold water just to pay your tuition and buy you
sneakers.”
“The day you took her to change her name, she cried all night, leaning on me, saying
she’d never be able to repay you in this lifetime.”
“That’s why she kept giving all the money she earned to Rachel, hoping it would
make voi
you happy when she came back.”
“But submitting to everything doesn’t lead to love…”
“Where were you when she was pushed down and lost the baby?”
“When she d k herself into a bleeding stomach ulcer at business meetings, Rachel
said she was dirty for associating with those people.”
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“And the most ridiculous part? You believed her.”
Zoey’s gaze locked onto Jackson’s face, her lips curling into a strange smile. “How
much humiliation, how much sacrifice, is enough to repay the debt she owed you?”
“Jenna was foolish, always giving her heart and soul to anyone who showed her the
slightest kindness.”