Reborn to Crush My Scheming Roommate

The library's quiet hum grounded me, its familiar stacks confirming my rebirth.Amber, Jessica, and Ruby's snarky jabs rolled off me like water off a duck's back. Talk was cheap; results were what counted.I dove into my studies, losing track of time until my stomach growled. My watch read 7:00 p.m., so I packed up, had dinner, and trudged back to the dorm, where the trio was still yammering about Amber's offer.Ignoring them, I slid into my bunk, closed the curtain, and focused on my notes.Amber yanked it open, grinning like she was doing me a favor. "Hey, the HR guy said I could bring a friend. Hand over your resume, and I'll hook you up."Her smugness was met with my flat refusal. "No, thanks. You can go solo."Her grin twisted into a scowl. "I'm trying to help you, Sabine, and this is your attitude? You think graduate school makes you hot stuff? Even with a PhD, you'll be scraping by in this economy."I held out my hand, cool as ice. "If you're so high and mighty, pay me ba

Before I could respond, Jessica and Ruby cut in. "$200,000 won't cut it! We need $600,000. There are three of us."I kept my cool. "What happened?"Thinking I'd help, they spilled the ugly truth.The dream job turned out to be a scam. The company dangled fat paychecks and easy hours to lure people to a hellhole where escape was impossible.If their family couldn't pay the ransom, they would be forced into running phone scams. Failing at that meant worse fate.All from small towns, they knew their parents couldn't scrape together that kind of cash. I was their only shot.Amber had blabbed about my family's wealth, and now they were pulling the friendship card.But my heart was stone.In my past life, when Amber spread rumors and slandered my dad, they were her accomplices. They echoed her online, saying that she was originally an optimistic and cheerful person, but after joining the company, she became depressed.They claimed they didn't know what had happened until she came fo

The police accepted my report, but with it being an international case, they warned it'd be a slog to resolve.I'd done my part. Their fates were up to chance now.When the fall semester kicked off, I overheard my professors gossiping about the trio.Amber's job had been big news, and she'd flaunted it online, posting travel photos that sparked envy. It seemed too good to be true.While most new graduates were barely scraping by with salaries that barely covered rent, working long hours just to get by, Amber was living the dream. Her job had a loose schedule and a starting salary of $50,000 a month.But now, only Amber had come back. Jessica and Ruby had vanished.Their parents had stormed the campus, demanding answers, but the school only knew they had gone abroad.Amber claimed they'd split up, and she had no clue where they were.On my way to drop off a report, I saw their parents pleading with the dean. Their threadbare clothes spoke of their poverty. They likely hadn't hea

My tip, combined with the police's investigation, cracked the case. Using Amber as a lead, they raided the trafficking ring in a massive operation.The news exposed the truth: Amber had escaped by luring more victims to the scam and doing whatever the criminals demanded, no matter how vile.Ruby, too stubborn to comply, was killed within a month. Her organs were harvested in a brutal act. Jessica survived, but her mind was shattered. Two others Amber tricked were maimed, one missing a leg, and the other a leg and an arm.Their families tracked Amber down, cursing her betrayal. The police warned students about scam jobs, revealing that Amber was released because she was hooked on drugs and under the scammers' control.She'd even given them my info, planning to lure me there to extort Logan.My mind reeled from the news. Thankfully, she had been caught in time, facing a decade-plus in prison.Years later, at a class reunion, someone mentioned that Amber was released, only to be sta