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Beyond Redemption Chapter 12
Five years later.The National Medal of Science ceremony was being broadcast worldwide.I wore a red bespoke suit and stood beneath the spotlight.In my hands was the heavy trophy, the highest honor in my field of biology.Thunderous applause rose below the stage, and countless flashes surrounded me."Thank you to my team, and thank you to the person I love, Tessa Mercer."I held the microphone, swept my gaze across the audience, and finally looked into the camera, my eyes steady."Most of all, I want to thank the self who never gave up on light, even in darkness."Along this path, I have witnessed too much injustice, but I have also proven that as long as you are alive, fairness will eventually arrive."At the same time, on the other side of the city.In a dark, damp basement, the air reeked of mold and human waste.An old television was playing the award ceremony.Vivian Harkins was curled up on a broken sofa. Her hair had turned completely white. She was not even thirty,
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Vivian Harkins did not give up.After that day, she began waiting downstairs outside the laboratory building, hiding in the corners and spying on my every move.She observed the rhythm of my steps. She observed my habit of adding two cubes of sugar to coffee.Late one night, heavy rain fell over Boston.I had just walked out of the lab building when a worn black umbrella appeared above my head.Vivian stood behind me, soaked through, most of the umbrella tilted toward me."Professor Whitmore, you don't have an umbrella, do you? I'll walk you to your car.""Ms. Harkins, is this interesting to you?"I asked coldly.Vivian's hand shook, and she explained in panic."Aaron... I know it's you."No one in this world knows you better than I do. You always step with your left foot first. When you read data reports, you like to bite your lip..."Even if you changed your face and your voice, I know it's you."Did you... take over another body? I know it sounds absurd, but if it's you
Beyond Redemption Chapter 10
Three years later.Boston, Northbridge University, Biology Department Laboratory Building.Now, I was Sebastian Whitmore.The youngest associate professor in Northbridge University's biology department, and the head of a nationally funded key laboratory.Over these three years, my life had been full and busy. My talent was like a seed buried for years that had finally found suitable soil and grown wildly."Professor Whitmore, the new lab equipment just arrived. It needs your signature."My teaching assistant, Jake, pushed open the lab door. Behind him was a courier in a dusty work uniform.I answered casually, "Leave it there.""Um... it has to be signed for in person."The courier's voice was low, cautious, and hoarse.Even after three years, I recognized that voice instantly.The woman in front of me wore a baseball cap. Her skin had become dark and rough from long exposure to wind and sun.Her back was hunched. There was no trace left of the elegant, confident department
Beyond Redemption Chapter 9
It had been one week since I "died" on the Billton Hotel terrace.During that week, I was not completely unaware.I had a long, strange dream filled with bizarre lights and shifting shadows. In the dream, the mechanical voice of the system rang out again.[Transaction complete. Host Aaron Hutchinson's original body has perished. Soul-transfer program initiating. Target vessel: Sebastian Whitmore, biology heir rendered brain-dead in a car accident.]When I opened my eyes again, I saw the snow-white ceiling of a top private hospital.A male nurse cried out that it was a miracle, and doctors swarmed in.I lifted my hand and saw long, fair fingers with no burn scars.It took me three days to adapt to this body.Then I drove to Westhaven Memorial Park. It was raining heavily.I stood beneath a cypress tree in the distance, looking through the curtain of rain at the small cluster of people gathered around a newly placed headstone.That was my headstone.The person lying in that ur
Beyond Redemption Chapter 8
Aaron's POVLandon Hutchinson had become disabled.In the police station morgue, he soiled himself on the floor and grabbed random items to stuff into his mouth.A doctor arrived, examined him, and shook his head."Severe cognitive impairment. His intelligence has regressed to the level of a three-year-old. Irreversible."My mother's hair turned white overnight.When my father woke and saw giggling Landon and cold, lifeless Aaron, he fainted again.This time, it was a stroke. His mouth twisted, his eyes drooped, and half his body was paralyzed.Vivian Harkins gripped the flash drive tightly.The police had returned it to her as a personal belonging.She inserted it into her laptop.When the folder opened, it contained not only the raw data for that paper.There was also a hidden folder.Its name was: Diary for Vivian Harkins.With trembling fingers, she clicked it open.[October 15, 2020. Vivian had a stomachache today. I skipped class to buy medicine for her and got sco
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Third-Person POVImpossible...Vivian Harkins muttered to herself.She suddenly grabbed the male officer's arm."He was always healthy! He hardly even caught colds! How could he suddenly become brain-dead? Did you make a mistake? This must be some fake-death drug! He's acting!"The officer shook off her hand."Acting? Then show me how to act as a corpse."He pointed at the purplish livor mortis that had already appeared on Aaron Hutchinson's neck."These are postmortem changes. He has been dead for at least three hours."Vivian's mind went blank.Three hours ago.She had been at the banquet, watching Landon present that paper and basking in applause.At that same time, Aaron had been alone on the terrace.Bleeding from the nose, feeling his life slip away bit by bit.And she had sent him messages.Telling him he was throwing a tantrum.Telling him he should be happy for his brother.Vivian bent over and retched violently.My mother leaned against the wall, her face gr
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