After I Refused to Trade Beds with My Best Friend, I Was Strangled to Death のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 1 - チャプター 9

Dulcie Quinn bumped my shoulder. “Why are you just standing there?“Come on. It’s time to board.”I looked up at the familiar train number and the familiar scene, and a chill swept through my body.In that instant, I knew.I had been reborn.I turned to Dulcie, and my gaze instinctively dropped to her stomach.If you didn’t look closely, you would never notice the slight curve of her belly.She was smiling at me like nothing was wrong, her arm linked through mine.“Come on, Haley,” she said sweetly. “It’s our turn.”I forced a stiff smile. “Okay.”As soon as we boarded, Dulcie’s phone rang. She shot me a guilty look, then made an excuse about needing to use the bathroom.I nodded. “Okay.”Then I started looking over my berth.I remembered that the upper berth across from mine belonged to a difficult older woman.In my previous life, Dulcie had gotten into a fight with her husband, Wallace Lambert, and wanted to get away for a few days to clear her head.I had immediately

Because of what happened in my last life, I stayed on edge the entire time.Sure enough, just before we reached the next stop, something happened to Dulcie.She collapsed onto the floor and started crying out in pain, making it sound far worse than it seemed at first.The train attendants all rushed over, but she kept calling my name.“Haley! Haley! Help me! My baby!”I stayed up on my berth and raised my voice. “Dulcie, since when were you pregnant?“How did I not know?”The older woman who had switched berths with me let out a cold snort. “If she knew she was pregnant, why was she climbing up and down like that?“Well, now look what happened.”Even though Dulcie had tried to set me up, the pain she was in now was clearly real.She cried out at the top of her lungs, “Haley, hurry up and get down here!“It hurts! It hurts so bad!”The moment she said that, blood started seeping through her pants.A lot of people backed away as soon as they saw it. The train attendants look

I stared at her in shock. “What?”At that point, it wasn’t just me who was stunned. Dulcie, lying in the hospital bed, looked just as thrown.“Aunt Sarah?”I had only asked the older woman to come with me as a witness, but now it was obvious she was going to be far more useful than I had expected.The moment Dulcie spoke, Sarah Lambert shot her an irritated look.Then she turned to Wallace. “This is the great wife you picked?”The sarcasm in her voice was impossible to miss.Wallace scratched his head awkwardly. “Yeah. I even sent you her picture back then.”To my surprise, Sarah didn’t hold back at all.“Yeah, and the girl in that picture didn’t look much like this one either.”She gave a cold snort and went on.“I heard every word she said just now. She made the whole thing up.”Then she tugged on my arm. “Come here, sweetheart. Stand over here by me.”Wallace’s eyes widened. “Aunt Sarah, what are you talking about?“She’s the one who made my wife miscarry!“Why are yo

The second she walked in, she started apologizing nonstop.“Haley, I’m sorry. I really lost my mind that day.“I wasn’t thinking straight. I blamed you for something that wasn’t your fault.“I know you’re a good person. You’re not going to hold it against me, right?”She kept her head down the whole time, but I still saw the slap marks on her face and the split at the corner of her mouth.Wallace had hit her again.After she got married, I couldn’t even count how many times Dulcie had come to me complaining that Wallace hit her.I told her more than once that she should call the police. That she should get a divorce.But every single time, she brushed it off.And I knew there was only so much I could say about someone else’s marriage, so eventually, I stopped bringing it up.Later, I met Shane. After we made things official, I brought him to meet Dulcie.I never imagined I was letting a wolf into my home.After years of being abused at home, Dulcie saw Shane, gentle and dep

The first thing he did after getting out was come find me and drop to his knees, begging for my forgiveness.I understood exactly why.He didn’t have a job.After we got together, he had been living off me the whole time. The reason he ended up with Dulcie was because she was gentle and soft-spoken.At least gentler than me.Every month, I gave Shane money to make up for the salary he had given up after quitting his job to stay home and take care of me.I never imagined that in his mouth, it would somehow become me treating him like a beggar living off handouts.“Haley, I was wrong.”Luckily, I had already moved, so the only place he could find me was at my office.Even then, he had no sense of shame. Right there in the lobby, he wrapped his arms around my legs and cried his heart out.“Can you forgive me?”I looked helplessly at the people gathering around us. “You cheated on me. How am I supposed to forgive that?”He wiped his tears. “You can’t let this one mistake erase