“Serena, if you’d been harsher with them, you could’ve stopped them. Why didn’t you cut your wrists or starve yourself to force them to stay?“You’re selfish! You never cared about your family’s safety. Now, this mess is yours to clean up, and you deserve it!”Hearing Matthew Quinn, my fiance, yelling at me, I opened my eyes in the darkness.The day had finally come. My parents and their adopted daughter had faked their deaths, which would ultimately force me to give up my education, and take on their debts.My lips curled into a smile before I could stop it. When Matthew saw me smiling instead of crying, he froze.“Have you lost your mind? Your parents just died! How can you smile?”I ignored him. I reached under my pillow, pulled out the accident insurance policy I had bought for the three of them yesterday, and held it to my chest. Tears streamed down my face as I laughed.In my past life, Matthew had lashed out at me with the very same words.He said that as their daughter,
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