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Before I Die Young
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The day my birth parents found me, the reunion banquet they threw turned into their funeral. My parents and their adopted daughter, Leila, died of food poisoning that night. The only one who survived was my older brother, Alpha Kian. He didn’t like sweets, so he never touched the cake. The cake that I handed to them myself. “So you want to take Leila’s place. “You’re just jealous because she got all our love! “She was the only one who ever accepted you, and you still killed her!” Those were Kian’s exact words as he shouted at me right outside the hospital room. From that day on, I became a sinner. To make up for it, I barely slept four hours a night and worked five jobs just to buy back the villa the rival pack seized during the chaos. However, the day I finally saved up enough, I saw my dead parents throwing a birthday party for Leila in that very villa. Kian stood among them, looking at her with a warmth I didn’t recognize. My mother said, “Isn’t today also Lily’s birthday? It’s been eight years. Maybe it’s time to forgive her.” However, Kian didn’t hesitate to refuse. “No. Even though Leila sniffed out the wolfsbane and saved you, we agreed that Lily gets ten years. “We can’t risk her ever trying to poison Leila again. Not even a day less.” I clutched the diagnosis paper from the clinic tightly and laughed through my tears. I knew I wouldn’t get to ten years. I was already dying.
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Before I Die Young Chapter 8
The first thing Kian did when he returned to the villa was pull up the surveillance footage from the family reunion.In the far corner of the banquet hall, Leila was whispering to a lone wolf.He handed her a packet of wolfsbane. In return, she shoved a wad of cash into his hands.Then, while no one was watching, Leila snuck into the kitchen and dumped the entire packet into the cake meant for their parents.Another video showed her slipping into the confessional, carefully scattering silver powder into every corner.“Crack!”Father smashed the television screen with his palm, while Mother let out a guttural wail.In Kian’s eyes, there was only pure, searing rage left.He stood wordlessly and walked to the room where Leila had been locked up.The moment she saw him, she ran to him, latching onto his arm like nothing had happened.“Kian! You’re back! I missed you so much. I was wrong, okay? I shouldn't have said those things. Will you forgive me?”Kian didn’t respond to her s
Before I Die Young Chapter 7
Seeing them again filled me with nothing but annoyance.I had gone to so much trouble of changing transportation multiple times, slipping through cities and stations just to end up in this remote seaside town. All I wanted was to die quietly and alone.However, they still found me, showing up with their fake sincerity.If they had truly cared, then what was the point of those eight years of hell?I watched as Kian pulled out his phone, about to call an elite medical team.With everything I had left in me, I called out to him. “Kian.”He dropped the phone instantly and leaned in close, his voice trembling. “I’m here, Lily. What is it?”I looked at him and said clearly and slowly, “Don’t come to my funeral. Your presence would only haunt me in death.”I watched in satisfaction as the color drained from his face.He dropped to his knees, his tall frame collapsing in an instant.Gripping my hand, he began slapping himself, again and again.“This is my fault! I’m the worst! I nev
Before I Die Young Chapter 6
After that day, my family did everything they could to please me, as if they could rip their hearts out and offer them up if it would help.Every day, Kian sliced fruit and held it up to my mouth. My mother brewed the most expensive herbal tonics that money could buy. My father even got down on his knees at my bedside, begging me to forgive them.However, all I could see when I looked at them was the eighteen years I’d spent in my adoptive parents’ house.I remembered the fear of being locked in a dark storage closet just for breaking a dish, the sharp screech of my adoptive mother’s voice, and the endless chores.Every night, I went to bed in hunger and pain, praying that my real parents would show up and take me away from that living hell.I endured eighteen years of abuse for the dream of a family that never came.Now they were trying to make up for it with delayed guilt. However, the hope I’d carried all those years was slaughtered the moment they stood up at that family reun
Before I Die Young Chapter 5
Kian’s hands were trembling.“This place is useless! I’m calling the best healer. There’s no way this is the final verdict!”However, even the best healer couldn’t cleanse the silver powder poison already seeping into my bones.“No, that’s impossible! Lily hardly ever goes out. How could she have been exposed to silver powder?”The healer looked at Kian solemnly and shook his head. “The toxin has already spread to her organs and limbs. Her right hand has lost all sensation.”A loud buzz exploded in Kian’s mind, like being struck by a sledgehammer.He stared at the healer, completely stunned. His lips trembled, but no sound came out.The healer sighed and handed him the report. “I’m sorry. We’ve done everything we can. The toxin is too far gone. There’s no cure.”He paused before adding, “At most, she has two months left.”Kian’s face went pale. He staggered back a few steps.“No wonder she didn’t make a sound when I hit her yesterday…”Hearing the diagnosis, Mother and Fathe
Before I Die Young Chapter 4
Kian came running the moment he heard the scream.When he saw Leila on the floor, he rushed over to help her up and asked what had happened.Leila cried and said, “Kian, don’t blame Lily. She just didn’t like the clothes I gave her. She didn’t mean to push me.”Kian’s face grew colder, his eyes like ice.“Leila was being kind by giving you clothes, and you still acted picky? Guess I’ve been too soft with you. That’s why you think you can do whatever you want.”He took a step toward me, then another. I instinctively raised my right hand to shield myself, but he grabbed my wrist before I could react.That hand, numb and lifeless from the silver poisoning, had long since lost all feeling.He grabbed a whip from the corner of the room and brought it down hard across my arm.“This is the hand you used to push Leila, isn’t it?” He struck again.I stared blankly as red welts bloomed across my arm. However, there was no pain.It turned out that numbness wasn’t always such a bad thing
Before I Die Young Chapter 3
My words wiped the smirk right off Kian’s face.His eyes lingered on me for a long moment before he let out a sharp, mocking laugh.“Lying again? That the top psychiatrist from neutral territory, personally recommended by Leila. You really think someone like that would resort to waterboarding?”“He probably used some water-based scientific treatment, and you just didn’t appreciate it. Now you’re twisting the story, trying to make Leila look bad.“You already know by now that our parents aren’t dead. These past years, we just wanted you to grow up and stop targeting Leila.“You’re still not there yet, but you are family. So, starting today, you can move back into the villa.”Before I could say anything, he added quickly, “But first, you need to apologize to Leila and promise you’ll never mention sending her away again.”I shook my head weakly. “That’s not happening.”I was willing to apologize for the things I’d done, but not for crimes I didn’t commit.Kian’s face darkened ins
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