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Chapter 2

Author: Sunny Enchmarch
I knelt all night, and the rain had finally stopped by early morning.

The front doors opened.

Mom and Dad walked out, their eyes red. John followed behind them, carefully helping Yara next to him.

Mom hurried forward and threw a medical report into the puddle in front of me, her eyes red. "The doctor said Yara suffered a shock so seriously that it triggered an arrhythmia! Her life was in danger, and you almost killed her, but you still won't even apologize."

Dad leaned on his cane with both hands, his voice cold. "What a waste of our love… How could we have brought back someone as cold-blooded as you?"

I looked down at the medical report soaking in the muddy water.

Yara leaned against John and said in a weak voice, "Dad, Mom, forget it. Renee suffered so much out there. She only wanted to take everything back. I understand..."

She broke free from John and walked over, then she crouched down and reached out as if she wanted to help me up. She chuckled softly in a voice only the two of us could hear and from an angle my parents could not see.

"Renee, I spent fifty thousand dollars on that medical report. There's nothing wrong with my heart at all, but if I so much as furrow my brow, they'll want to tear you apart.

Then she let go and deliberately staggered back two steps, clutching her chest as she coughed. "It hurts... Renee, don't push me..."

John's eyes went red with rage. He rushed over and grabbed my collar, then yanked me out of the muddy water. "Do you even have a conscience? Yara is already this sick and you still want to hurt her."

As he dragged me around, the moonstone pendant around my neck slipped out. It was the pendant that Mom had gone to a famous monastery to have blessed when I first came home, saying it would keep me safe.

John glanced at Yara, who was clutching her chest and trembling, then yanked the necklace holding the pendant from my neck. A burning pain flared around my neck, and he had the pendant in his hand.

"Mom had this blessing to keep someone safe. A vicious person like you doesn't deserve to wear it." He turned and carefully tucked the pendant into Yara's hand. "Yara, don't be afraid. It will keep you safe."

I watched Yara hold the pendant in her palm and give me a smug smile. I then looked down and pried John's fingers from my collar. My cracked lips slowly parted. "You pretend to have heart problems every day..."

Mom cut me off in a panic. "Enough! You're still trying to slander your sister!"

I kept my eyes on Yara and went on. "Aren't you afraid you will really get a real heart attack?"

Yara chuckled. "Renee, are you..."

However, before she could finish, her smile froze. Her eyes opened wide, as both hands held on the left side of her chest as she dropped to her knees in the muddy water.

"Ah!" Her scream of agony tore through the morning as she convulsed, rolling on the ground in pain.

This time, she was not pretending. She was really in so much pain she could barely breathe.

Mom screamed and rushed over while John swept the unconscious Yara into his arms and ran outside. "Get the car! We're going to the hospital!"

Dad pointed at me in fury and roared. "You knew she couldn't handle any more provocation but you still said those things on purpose to provoke her! Lock her in the basement!"

Two security guards came over, twisting my hands behind my back and dragged me into the dark basement.

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