All Chapters of Reset to the Day They Killed Me: Chapter 1 - Chapter 8

There was a wall of metal sound, and then everything in my body lit up at once.I jerked my eyes open. My side was pinned under the car. That was when it landed: I had been given a second chance.A few yards away, Mason Sterling was already running toward the wreck in his rescue-squad jacket, his crew at his back.The pain in my belly was rolling out in long pulses. The blood was already coming down my thigh.I had been here before. This time I did not waste my voice begging for him to save me first.I dragged my phone out and dialed for an ambulance myself.In my last life, Maya had not actually been hurt that badly.Mason came running up. I had screamed at him to save the baby first. He had hesitated when he saw how much blood was on me, and started toward me.Maya had thrown herself into a hysterical fit at exactly the right moment, somehow knocked something on the dash, and the car had gone up in flames.By the time Mason and the squad got her out, it was too late.While

When I woke up, I was in a hospital bed.The nurse told me, gently, that a farmer who lived nearby had finally pulled me out from under the car. He had worked at it for almost an hour.By the time they got me to the hospital, the baby was already gone.I held the tears back. I stared at the ceiling.Before I had finished processing that I had lost a child, the internet was already on fire.Someone had filmed the crash site. The clip had been edited and spread everywhere.In the version on the internet, I was a temperamental pregnant woman who had been driving drunk and caused the accident. I had thrown a fit at the rescue site, occupied resources, and almost killed Maya.The pile-on came overnight. The whole country wanted me dead."This woman is sick. How can a person be this disgusting?""Using her pregnancy as a weapon. Going after a rescue squad. Awful.""I hope she miscarries."Every kind of rot ended up in my mentions.Mason, by sending Maya first, had picked up a fan

He stumbled forward and reached for my belly."The baby! Where is the baby? What happened?"The grief on his face was a sick joke.The thing I had been holding in for weeks finally came up out of me."Mason, you are asking now? Now you remember?"The day of the crash, I was pinned under the car, hemorrhaging, and you took the ambulance I called for and put your woman in it."It was you. You killed our baby."His shoulders rocked.The eyes went briefly blank. Some part of him started to remember the version of me he had stepped past on the gravel, soaked in blood."Lara… I…"His mouth was shaking. He started toward me. He put his hand out toward my stomach.In the next half-second, Maya put herself between us.She wiped at her face. Her voice came out small."Mason, the car wasn't on her stomach. There is no way the baby was killed in the crash."Maybe Lara herself. Maybe she got rid of the baby on purpose. To make you blame me."I shook so hard I thought I was going to f

"Mason, the baby is yours…""What did you say?!"He spun toward me, voice cracking."What are you saying! Don't believe a word she says!"I have always been good to her, but I never crossed any line. Never!"You have to believe me."He sounded desperate. To me, it sounded like a punchline.Maya, white-faced, kept thrashing in the officers' grip."Mason, you don't remember?"That night you fought with Lara. You drank. I picked you up and brought you to my place."You thought I was her, and we…"She was sobbing too hard to talk."I didn't want to use this. But you can't let them take me! Not with our baby."Mason was pale, and his mouth would not stop moving."Maya. You are despicable."You made me cheat on my own wife. The harshest punishment is what you deserve."He turned away from her completely and came toward me."Lara, please! Believe me…"I never wanted to betray you! This was an accident! Please, forgive me!"I stepped back so he could not touch me.By now an