INICIAR SESIÓNI was born a dense people-pleaser, completely missing sarcasm and mistaking backhanded insults for compliments. Because of this, I died six times under bizarre circumstances, though I always assumed I just had terrible luck. This was my seventh rebirth, and fate gave me a head start. The moment I opened my eyes, a new text appeared in my phone's memo app. [Your best friend, Nancy Morgan, will arrive tonight at eight, claiming she wants to stay over. Once you fall asleep, she will turn on the gas valve and leave.] [Your childhood sweetheart, Lorenzo Myers, will visit you in the hospital while you're delirious and force you to sign over your apartment.] [They will marry, move into your home, and drain your assets. You will die of organ failure after they stop paying your medical bills.] I frowned, dismissing it as a sick joke. Nancy and Lorenzo had always been good to me. Why would they want me dead? I figured this time I could finally relax and live a normal life. Then, at eight o'clock sharp, the doorbell rang, and Nancy's cheerful voice floated through the door. "Gloria, I came to see you! Miss me? Open up!" I started toward the door with a habitual smile on my face. But the final line of the prophecy flashed in my mind: "They'll team up to put you in the hospital. You'll lose everything and die." I froze in place.
Ver másI didn't go to court the day the verdict came down.Laura called me, her voice steady and flat, as if she were reading a document she had gone over a hundred times before."Lorenzo was convicted of attempted murder, fraud, and forgery of a power of attorney. Combined sentence: seven years. Nancy cooperated fully and received three years' probation. She was released."I told Laura I understood.She paused, then added, "The 200,000 dollars have been repaid in full, principal plus interest. Lorenzo's family sold their old house to scrape the funds together."I thanked her and hung up....That night, I sat alone on the sofa in my mother's apartment.I left the main lights off, switching on only the floor lamp beside the coffee table. The warm yellow glow pooled across the back of my hand.I looked down at my right thumb. The skin was completely clean.The red ink from that afternoon had been washed away long ago, but I still vividly remembered the sensation—the icy touch of the
On the day of the trial, Lorenzo sued me for defamation, claiming I had spread false accusations while in the hospital.Nancy was the prosecution's star witness. She sat on the stand with a fresh, short haircut, looking composed. When she spoke, her words rushed out much faster than usual, as if she had rehearsed her script for a long time."After the gas poisoning, Gloria became mentally unstable," Nancy testified. "She developed paranoid delusions and convinced herself that everyone around her was trying to harm her."My lawyer stood up. "Witness, you claim Gloria is mentally unstable. Do you have a medical diagnosis to support that?"Nancy faltered. "The doctor said carbon monoxide poisoning causes aftereffects...""Did the doctor simply mention possible aftereffects, or do you possess an official medical report?" My lawyer's voice wasn't loud, but every word carried weight.Nancy fell silent, her fingernails digging into the wooden edge of the witness stand. When it was my tu
On the day I was discharged, my mother's longtime friend, Laura Hayes, came to pick me up.The attorney wore metal-framed glasses and harbored the same quirk as my late mother—tucking a pen behind her ear.Once we were in the car, she handed me her phone to show the carrier call records.The timeline was clear: At 2:03 AM, Nancy dialed Lorenzo's number, keeping him on the line for seven minutes and twelve seconds.At 2:06 AM, the gas company's system logged an abnormal flow spike at my apartment that lasted for about four minutes. At 2:08 AM, Nancy's cell signal pinged a tower 300 yards away from my building."Three data points. The timeline matches perfectly," Laura said, putting the phone away. "The gas company issued a formal report. Those system logs can't be altered."I leaned back against the headrest and stared out the window. The pieces snapped into a terrifying sequence: the whispered call at 2:03, the rubber gloves twisting the valve at 2:06, and the heavy slam of the f
Lorenzo's hand remained frozen in mid-air—the same hand I had been gripping moments ago.Nancy scrambled backward until her hip struck the windowsill, dragging the curtain down with a rustle. She shrank against the wall, clawing at the fabric."Keep your hands where we can see them," the lead officer commanded.His voice wasn't loud, but it carried enough weight to make Lorenzo slowly drop his hands. Lorenzo's gaze shifted from the Power of Attorney form on the nightstand to the crimson ink staining my thumb."Officer, this is a misunderstanding," he said, flashing a practiced smile. "She just woke up, and her mind is still fried from the gas poisoning. The doctors warned us she might suffer from severe paranoia as a side effect. She is my girlfriend who just came out of critical care."The words rolled off his tongue with fluid ease. Undoubtedly, it was just another rehearsed line.The officer looked down at the documents. "Where did this ink pad come from?"Lorenzo stayed sile












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