THE WIDOW WHO NEVER WAS のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 61 - チャプター 70

ALIRA’S POVI didn’t wait to hear the rest of Liam’s conversation.The moment those words left his friend’s mouth, my body reacted before my mind did.Second chance…Previous life.It echoed in my head like a gunshot.My feet moved automatically as I backed away from the pillar, careful not to make any sound. My heart was pounding so loudly I was certain they could hear it.Liam… was reborn too.The realization made my stomach twist.I got into my car without looking back and drove home.The entire drive felt like a blur.By the time I stepped into my apartment, my mind was spinning.I locked the door behind me and leaned against it, breathing slowly.“No,” I whispered to myself. “No, no, no…”I pushed away from the door and began pacing the living room.Everything was suddenly different.Everything…the message…the mysterious email…the warning.The words came rushing back into my mind as clearly as the day I first read them.Three hearts woke up from the same death.One seeks redempt

BETSY'S POVBy the time I reached my mother’s house, my anger had become hot and poisonous inside my chest.I didn’t knock gently.I pushed the door open and walked in like the house still belonged to me.My mother was seated in the living room, flipping through documents with her glasses low on her nose, looking far too calm for someone whose entire position had just been publicly torn apart.She looked up once then returned her eyes to the papers.“You look terrible,” she said flatly.I dropped my bag on the sofa.“Are you seriously sitting there like nothing happened?”That got her attention as she slowly removed her glasses.“Excuse me?”“Alira!” I snapped. “That’s what happened! She walked into the company like she owned the entire world and embarrassed you in front of everyone!”My mother’s jaw tightened, but she remained silent.I paced the room.“You are way too calm Mother…She had documents!!!! Real documents…Nobody questioned her. Nobody defended you…they all just sat there

ALIRA’S POVBy the time I returned home from the hospital, my head felt heavier than my body.The doctor’s words refused to leave me.“The hero in your previous life may become the villain in this one.”That single sentence had followed me all the way home like a shadow.I dropped my handbag on the table and stood still in the middle of the living room, staring at nothing.If I wanted to survive, then I could not afford blind revenge.I needed certainty and needed proof and proof could only come from testing the people around me one after another.Alec was the first name that came into my mind.Not because I trusted him but because he had once stood beside my death wearing concern like borrowed clothing.If he had returned too, then somewhere beneath that calm face would be cracks.And tonight, I intended to find them.The first thing I did was send him a message.“Come over tonight…I cooked.”His reply came almost immediately.“Are you serious?”I stared at the screen before typing b

ALIRA’S POVDarkness came first..then voices and then memory.Not the kind that arrived gently.The kind that dragged me by the throat back into a moment I had spent every waking day trying not to relive.In the dream, I was back in that house.The old staircase stood before me exactly as I remembered it…wide, polished, elegant, and cursed.Every detail looked painfully real.Then Alec’s voice behind me was sharp and angry.“Stop acting like a maniac and tell me what you heard!! Alira…please listen to me!! I swear I didn't mean to hurt you….Alira?? Alira??” I turned in the dream exactly as I had done that day in my previous life.His face was blurry at first, then clearer.The same face I had once loved enough to die for.The words were unclear now, swallowed by dream haze, but the feeling remained vivid..the anger, the betrayal, the exhaustion.Then I turned toward the stairs.A hand behind me.A sudden force.A shove.My body lurched forward.The terrifying emptiness beneath my fee

ALIRA’S POVAfter banging repeatedly, there was silence.Just a second ago, my mother had been banging on the door like she wanted to tear the entire house down… and now,Nothing.I frowned slightly as my hand was still resting on the door handle.Behind me, Iris shifted.“Why did she stop?” she asked quietly.I didn’t answer because I didn’t know and that alone made my chest tighten.“Iris…” I said under my breath.She turned to me immediately.“What?”“Don’t open that door.”“Why?”“I don’t know yet but something feels off.”For a second, we both stood there listening.Suddenly we heard a sound from the kitchen as the kitchen doorknob twisted.My heart dropped.“She’s trying to come in through the back,” Iris muttered, anger flashing across her face.Then there was a loud bang against the door.“ALIRA!!!”Her voice rang through the house.“OPEN THIS DOOR BEFORE I BREAK IT DOWN!!!”“What the hell is her problem??" Iris asked.I folded my arms slowly, leaning slightly against the wall