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Chapter 8

Author: Perfect Timing
Claire suddenly seemed to remember something.

She stumbled into my room.

Everything I owned was still exactly where I had left it.

But the person who used to sit beside the window was gone.

Only the faint medicinal smell that had clung to me remained.

With shaking hands, Claire reached beneath my pillow and pulled out a small metal box.

Inside was a copy of the novel this world had been built from.

The plot matched Aidan Pettigrew's original timeline exactly.

When Mom and Dad saw the boo
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    [Redemption mission successfully completed.][Congratulations, Host. Hidden ending unlocked: The Family's Regret.]After receiving the System notification, I opened the novel again for the first time in a long while.In the original ending, Aidan Pettigrew died in a police shooting.Ryan lived out his life unfulfilled.I had entered that world to save Claire.Somehow, I ended up giving Ryan a complete life instead.By the end of the rewritten story, Ryan finally recovered.He left the Pettigrew family.He didn't take a single dollar with him.Mom and Dad remained in that enormous, empty house.They spent the rest of their lives waiting for a family reunion that never came.Ryan, meanwhile, had the business instincts the novel had always promised its male lead.He started a small company from nothing.Over the next few years, he donated most of what he earned to charity.Eventually, he left the city and began traveling through rural communities, helping children who had n

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    After my death, Claire came to the Pettigrew estate and asked for my ashes.Mom and Dad had decided that every terrible thing I endured was connected to my mission with Claire.They hated her for making my mission fail and making me vanish for good.Claire never even made it through the front door.The staff turned her away.In the end, she didn't get to keep a single thing of mine.I had left this world with nothing.In one sense, I had left everything behind.In another, I had left absolutely nothing for her.Even after my death, Claire wasn't allowed inside my memorial service.She could only kneel outside the iron gates and beg for forgiveness.By the end of the day, there was blood on the stone beneath her.Ryan knew how completely Claire had broken my heart.When the staff went to clean the entrance, he only said, "Wash it away."Don't leave anything dirty in Aiden's path."After that day, the Pettigrew family went after the Monroes without mercy.The Monroe famil

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    Claire suddenly seemed to remember something.She stumbled into my room.Everything I owned was still exactly where I had left it.But the person who used to sit beside the window was gone.Only the faint medicinal smell that had clung to me remained.With shaking hands, Claire reached beneath my pillow and pulled out a small metal box.Inside was a copy of the novel this world had been built from.The plot matched Aidan Pettigrew's original timeline exactly.When Mom and Dad saw the book, they both seemed to breathe easier.Then Claire found an ID card beneath it.The instant Mom saw the name, her body folded.She slid down the wall and sat on the floor.Dad's eyes filled with tears.He pressed a fist hard against his mouth, shaking with regret.Aidan Pettigrew had done terrible things.Maybe that person had deserved their hatred.But the name on the card was Aiden, with an E. Not Aidan, the villain they had been punishing all these years.It was me, a completely diff

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    Ryan should have realized it sooner.What were the odds that one brother suddenly needed a kidney and the other conveniently became a donor at exactly the right time?He had simply never believed our family could do something like that to me.That trust was what destroyed me.What Ryan told the police caught their attention.They reopened questions surrounding my death.Mom and Dad insisted I had abused medication on my own.The sleeping pills found in my system before surgery were treated as further evidence that I had been depressed.With no proof strong enough to contradict the records, the case was eventually closed.Ryan refused to let it go.He kept going back to the police.Dad finally dragged him home.For the first time in my memory, Dad screamed at Ryan with real anger."Are you going to send your entire family to prison over that little monster?"His face twisted.Then he finally told Ryan the truth they had used to justify everything."You don't understand.

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    A few sentences were enough to freeze the entire family in place.The hospital corridor went silent.Mom's lips trembled."Doctor... there has to be a mistake. He only had one kidney removed. How could he die?"Dad's expression changed.Then his face hardened."How much did Aiden pay you to help him fake his death?"Any sympathy on the doctor's face disappeared."Mr. Pettigrew, after your son died, the hospital immediately requested a formal forensic review."He pointed toward the corridor cameras.Then he told them what the investigation had found."His body had already been badly weakened by long-term medication misuse."He'd also just had a cardiac episode and hadn't fully recovered. His heart stopped during surgery."The doctor hesitated."But what actually caused the surgery to fail were the sleeping pills he took beforehand."His voice lowered."He probably never expected to leave the operating room alive."Everyone stood there, stunned.None of them had imagine

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    The room went silent.Mom's hand jerked.The medical file slipped from her fingers and hit the floor.Dad recovered first.He stepped forward and punched me hard enough to knock me back onto the bed.Blood ran down my face."You little monster! What did you say to Ryan? Are you trying to get him killed?"[We should've let those thugs finish him years ago. We could've taken the kidney then.][My poor Ryan. How did he end up with a selfish brother like this?][I actually thought Aiden had changed. It was all an act. Once the kidney is out, I'll throw him out of this family.]Their thoughts crashed together until my head throbbed.Ryan's hands shook as he cleaned the blood from my face.He argued with them while Dad pointed at me and shouted.Even Claire looked at me with disappointment.[I wanted to give him one last chance to become a better person. We were too soft on him.]A chance?When had any of them ever given me one?Their shocked faces blurred.The room went da

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