Lahat ng Kabanata ng When Mom Wants Me to Join Her in Death: Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 9

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

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

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

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

"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