All Chapters of My Childhood Friend Sent Me To An Underground Casino: Chapter 1 - Chapter 9

My sister, Andrea Rainier, had just come home with my ashes in her arms when Renee Austin kicked the door open.She had swept her gaze across the empty room. Her voice was cold. “Where is Cameron? Tell him to get out here.”Andrea shrank into the corner and held the box in her arms even tighter.She smiled at Renee. “Cameron’s right here.”Renee’s brow furrowed tightly.Her eyes landed on the cheap wooden box, then shifted to Andrea’s innocent face.She let out an impatient scoff and reached out to snatch it away. “You idiot. Where’s he hiding? Did he make you hold this stupid box to mess with me?”Andrea guarded the urn with all her strength. Tears were welling in her eyes.“Cameron is right here. He is inside. Be gentle. You might hurt him.”Renee looked as though she had just heard the most ridiculous joke in the world.She knocked Andrea’s hands away.The wooden box hit the floor. Ashes scattered everywhere.“Right. Does a menace like Cameron even know pain? When he s

Renee used every connection she had, but she could no longer find a trace of my existence.That crumpled death certificate became the only clue.At the hospital, the smell of disinfectant was sharp and suffocating.Renee went to the doctor on duty. “Has anyone been brought in recently from the underground casino on the West Side?”How ridiculous.That underground casino had been Renee’s territory.She could have gotten me out with a single word.Instead, she let me suffer inside.The doctor pushed up his glasses and thought for a moment.“Yes. About five or six days ago, a young man was brought in. He was already too far gone when he arrived. It was horrific. Almost every bone in his body had been broken. All ten of his fingernails had been torn out, and there was not a single patch of unbroken skin left on him. In the end, he lost too much blood, and his organs failed. We did everything we could, but we couldn’t save him.”Renee suddenly felt a sense of dread. Her fingertips

Renee sobbed in Jacob’s arms. Her tears kept falling.She kept telling him the story of how she and I had met and grown up together.“Cameron and I grew up together. After his parents died, he and his sister only had each other. I was practically Andrea’s sister too. I want to hold a funeral for her.”As Jacob listened to her, a ruthless glint appeared in his eyes.He thought, ‘Thank goodness. Even the only person who knows the truth is dead. Now, no one will ever know what really happened at the underground casino. Cameron is nothing more than a dead man now. A dead man can never open his mouth to speak of the wrongs he has suffered.’Renee was a very smart woman. She sensed the shift in Jacob’s mood.However, she did not think too much of it. She only assumed Andrea’s death had hit them both too hard.Then, she suddenly asked, “Jacob, those debts you owed before, they were only for your family’s medical bills, right?”Jacob stiffened for a moment, then nodded. He looked as th

The call was suddenly cut off. Only then did I realize my face was covered in tears.I thought, ‘Renee, I’m never getting out of here.’Renee moved fast.Andrea’s funeral was arranged with great extravagance.Jacob pushed the door open and walked in.He took Renee’s hand. “Renee, you’re too kind. Even though Cameron never showed up, you still helped his sister.”Renee sighed.“No matter what, she was still my sister. This is the least I could do. Come on. It’s about to start. Let’s go out.”I floated beside Renee. All I felt was bitter contempt.She killed my sister.Just because she had given Andrea a funeral, she was kind?‘Renee, I will never thank you for this,’ I thought.Perhaps Renee felt something. She glanced in my direction.Jacob immediately spoke up. “Renee, what are you looking at?”Renee shook her head, distracted and uneasy.“Nothing.”The funeral began soon after.Halfway through the ceremony, two little girls in ragged clothes walked in.The moment Ja

Her assistant carefully said, “Ms. Austin, didn’t Mr. Rainier already pass away?”Renee was practically shouting. “Impossible. I need proof, dead or alive. I don’t believe he’s dead. He must be blaming me. Find him. I’ll apologize to him!”The assistant’s voice dropped even lower, carrying a trace of pity. “Mr. Rainier has passed away. Last week, someone delivered his death certificate to the company’s front desk. I wanted to tell you then, but you said you didn’t want to hear anything about Mr. Rainier.”Renee could no longer make out the rest of what the assistant said.Her phone crashed to the floor.As if all the strength had been drained from her body, she collapsed weakly to the floor.How ironic.I floated in the air and looked at the woman who had once been so proud and untouchable. I sneered.Was this regret?Too late.There was no way to undo any of it.The funeral ended hastily in an eerie, unsettling silence.Renee seemed to become a different person.She wip