All Chapters of Avalanche of Betrayal: Chapter 1 - Chapter 9

Hearing their conversation, I figured the patient they mentioned was probably my body.I turned to look at Reese and saw him completely absorbed, eyes fixed on Sandra, oblivious to everything else around him. His voice was full of worry. "Sandra, don't worry. I've already sent people to find Carmen. Her blood type's the same as yours. She'll save you."Fresh out of surgery, Sandra was pale, her voice faint. "Reese, if you do that… Carmen won't be happy. You shouldn't upset her. She's still carrying your child, after all. Carmen was right about one thing—since I'm not your biological sister, I should've left the family long ago. I never should've stayed and caused so much trouble."Reese tensed the moment she said that.He grabbed her hand, almost panicking. "What are you talking about? You are my sister. I won't allow you to leave the family. Where would you even go? Back to that house where they used to beat you? If you hadn't helped me escape those traffickers back then, I wouldn

Reese had the speakerphone on. Sandra heard everything. Tears welled up in her eyes, brimming with fragile sorrow. "It's all my fault," she whimpered. "I made Carmen angry. She must hate me now… sob… Reese, I want to go look for her. Maybe she's just hiding somewhere, waiting for me to say sorry. As soon as I apologize, once she forgives me, she won't keep scaring you like this anymore."In just a few sentences, Sandra had twisted my death into a tantrum—another of my petty tricks, a fake message meant to mislead them.I clenched my fists. I already knew the truth in my heart, but still, I found myself glancing at Reese, waiting.He was quiet for a moment. Then his expression turned cold."Keep looking," he snapped at the assistant. "Carmen's a snake. She loves playing these games with me. The moment you find her, hand her that signed divorce agreement. If she won't sign it, force her to. She's no longer my wife. And don't forget to take 800cc of her blood."I laughed bitterly

Bruce rushed to defend himself. "Mr. Bradley, of course not. But Mrs. Bradley is dead. Our men—""Enough!" Reese cut him off, his voice sharp with ice. "You're trying to bring up that heart rate tracker again, aren't you? She's taken it off before to scare me. This isn't the first time. Round up the guys and find her! I don't care if she's hiding on the far edge of the world. Bring her back."Bruce tried to say something more, but Reese had already hung up.I watched him coldly, that angry flush on his face, the clenched jaw. And I laughed.If it weren't for Sandra's accident, for her needing me, maybe Reese would've gone on never remembering I even existed.Back then, I poured everything I had into him. I chalked up his coldness to aloofness, thinking he was just reserved by nature. But these last few hours had made everything perfectly, brutally clear.He wasn't incapable of love. He just didn't love me.He cared that Sandra walked barefoot. But when I missed a step on the sta

A bitter smile crept across my face.Back when I was still alive, Reese had done this kind of thing to me more times than I could count.Like when I cooked an elaborate meal just for him, and he said it didn't compare to the plain bowl of porridge Sandra made on a whim.Or when he came home drunk after entertaining clients, I went out to pick him up, only for him to stagger off without a glance the moment he got a message from Sandra.The memories surged forward, one after another. I shut my eyes, forcing back the ache rising in my chest.Reese followed the lead officer to the 18th floor of the hospital.That phone call he'd received earlier—it brought me back to two years ago, when my family's business collapsed, and my parents passed away one after another. Since then, I was the only one from my family left in this world.I still remember kneeling alone before their tombstones that day. The rain fell hard, blurring the headstones and soaking through me completely. From that da