All Chapters of When Mom Wants Me to Join Her in Death: Chapter 1 - Chapter 9

9 Chapters

Chapter 1

It felt like my heart had been bound by a thousand ropes attached to a block of lead. The crushing weight yanked me out of sleep, and my eyes snapped open.I stared around at the all-too-familiar bedroom, and the realization slammed into me—I'd come back to life.I picked up my phone and the screen lit up, showing it was 4:00 am.A faint gray line had already appeared along the horizon outside the window.Thinking about how I'd been rushed into the ICU in my previous life, I immediately called my sister, Claire Dawson."Claire! Stop whatever you're doing right now!"Her reply came through between ragged breaths and the edge of a sob. "I can't, Maeve! Mom showed up in my dream! She said if I don't reach the top of Mount Mistwood before sunrise, those evil spirits will tear her apart!"I know you're worried about me, but I can't just sit here and do nothing while Mom's being pushed around! Anyway, I have to go. The sun's coming up in less than an hour. If I don't make it by then

Chapter 2

When I opened my eyes, the first thing I saw was Claire's eyelids. They were swollen like walnuts and shadowed with dark circles she couldn't hide."Maeve! You're finally awake! You have no idea how terrified I was when Kamila called me. I've already lost Mom! I can't lose you too!"She threw herself into my arms and sobbed like a child.The doctor, who'd just walked in, couldn't help but say, "You two seem really close. Ms. Dawson, when you were sent to the ICU last night, your sister waited outside the entire night."Hearing this, Claire pulled away from my arms. Her cheeks flushed. She wiped her tears and gave a sheepish smile.I noticed that her arms were perfectly fine, while my right one was in a cast.My heart sank. So, it wasn't some kind of mutual damage. Only her injuries would transfer to me.By the door, Claire was already peppering the doctor with questions about how to take care of me.With how worried she looked, anyone passing by would've assumed she cared for m

Chapter 3

I ended up back in the hospital. And this time, it clearly scared Claire half to death.She cried so hard, and she was apologizing over and over. "I'm so sorry, Maeve. This is all my fault. If I hadn't insisted on fulfilling Mom's last wish, this never would've happened to you. I'm so sorry..."In my previous life, right up until the day I died, she never once slipped up about the injury-transfer phenomenon. It always left me wondering whether she truly knew about it.She was my only living family member. I didn't want to think the worst of her.But she just wouldn't stop crying. Her voice seemed to drill into my skull. Between that and the ridiculous way I kept getting hurt, my patience snapped."Enough! Why did you have to go skydiving? Didn't I tell you to stay home?"Mom's dead! Are her last words really that important to you? Important enough to make you throw your life away?"I had bodyguards guarding the house around the clock. How did you even get out?"It wasn't just b

Chapter 4

My whole body was shaking, uncontrollably. The tears stinging my eyes froze on my cheeks the instant they fell.I yanked the blanket tighter around myself and told the bodyguard to turn the heater all the way up.Even when the room temperature climbed to a stifling 95 degrees Fahrenheit, I was still shivering, while the bodyguard in the same room had gone pale and was sweating through his shirt.A cold dread curled in my gut."Where's Claire?" I asked.The bodyguard dropped to his knees with a heavy thud. "I'm sorry. She's..."I closed my eyes. My last bit of strength was swallowed by fury."Are you all useless? I'm paying you 18,000 dollars a month, and you still can't keep track of her? If you don't want the job, then get out!"I reached for the lamp on the side table to throw it at him, but my hands were so numb from the cold that it slipped from my fingers and clattered to the floor."What are you still kneeling there for? Get out and find her! Or do you want me to say ple

Chapter 5

My hand wouldn't stop shaking around the sheet of paper.The call that never went through felt like it was mocking how stupid I'd been.The bodyguard I'd just yelled at rushed back in and dropped to his knees in front of me again."Ms. Maeve, we've got Ms. Claire's location, but..."He hesitated for a moment before saying grimly, "There's a storm at the South Pole. All flights are grounded..."A bitter smile tugged at my lips.My dear sister really had gone all out to get me killed.My fingers, which were already blue from the cold, used the last of their strength to crush the paper into a ball.I picked up the phone I'd dropped earlier. Then, I dialed a number that had been sitting in my contacts for years.The line connected almost immediately.In the silence, I could clearly hear the breathing on the other end growing faster."If you don't get here, you can come collect my body..."Before I could finish, a sharp pain shot through my hand. The phone was kicked out of my g

Chapter 6

The bodyguard's eyes went wide at what I said.Mom said something to him, and he tore out his earpiece before pushing the phone into my hand.I glanced at the screen and saw a woman with flawless makeup and rosy cheeks. It was my mother, who was supposed to be dead.There wasn't a trace of warmth on her face. Her gaze was wary, edged with a subtle, almost hidden touch of regret.What could she possibly regret?No mother would ever hurt her own child, yet she had used those so-called "dreams" as her excuse to kill me.As I questioned her, she let out a cold snort. "So what if you figured it out? You're still going to die. The only difference is that now you know the truth.""So, you had the lawyer slip this document in, didn't you?" I asked, holding up the paper that had finally laid everything bare for me.On the screen, Mom took off her glasses calmly. "Since you already know, why bother asking?""No," I said. "I need to hear you say it."Her gaze darted aside, refusing to m

Chapter 7

The person who was bound hand and foot inside the cabinet, gagged and trembling, was Claire, who was supposed to be freezing in the wind and playing with penguins at the South Pole.With tears and snot streaking down her face as she stared at me with the most pitiful expression she could muster, she silently begged me to spare her.On the screen, Margaret was shrieking, hurling every vile curse she could think of at me.I barely spared her a glance. I simply scoffed, "You came up with dreams and that injury-transfer trick, but you can't stand me fixing the problem at its root?"That shut her up.I'd been given a second life. I'd upgraded every camera in the villa. Yet, Claire had still managed to slip past the bodyguards like the place was empty and vanish from under all their noses.I'd known something was wrong with the security in this villa.If she could slip out once, then there was no way I'd be standing here without a backup plan when my life was on the line.The only re

Chapter 8

The moment I climbed into the helicopter, a wave of relief finally loosened the tightness in my chest.I was rushed straight into surgery. It lasted three days and three nights.The doctors called it a complete success.The little thing that had been buried in my brain was finally gone for good.By the time I was transferred out of the ICU and into a regular room, my mother's secretary, Phoebe Wagner, was already there waiting.She was the one I'd called from the villa that day. She was the only person in this world I trusted besides my mother.Phoebe gave me a gentle smile and handed me a thick folder. "I think that once you've gone through these, you'll understand everything, Ms. Dawson."I grabbed it and flipped through page after page, reading every line.As I kept reading, my expression just grew colder until all I felt was hatred.Right then, noise erupted outside my room.I clearly heard Claire's voice. "Why won't you let me in? I'm her sister! I'm the only sister of t

Chapter 9

"So you and Nicole teamed up to kill me?"They really had gone all in on this.Nicole was my mother's younger sister, so she was my aunt. But she was the illegitimate daughter no one in the family would ever admit existed.Even with my grandfather doting on her, the entire Hale estate had nothing to do with Nicole. Instead, my mother was the only heir.However, someone as greedy as Nicole was never going to accept being raised in comfort only to end up with nothing. So, she came up with a plan to swap out my sister and throw her into a pond to drown.The sister I grew up with was actually her daughter.Unfortunately for Nicole, her daughter was just like her—incapable on her own and content to live off the Hale family's wealth.Mom had long known that Claire was not up to anything. So, she left everything to me and wrote it clearly in her will.As the heir, I was responsible for making sure Claire lived a comfortable life.If Nicole had been satisfied with that, the annual div

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