All Chapters of The Scars Time Cannot Heal: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

The diary was a memoir I had written.After escaping from the psychiatric hospital, my mind was blurred and dazed. I didn't want to go anywhere, so I holed myself up in Vanessa's apartment and poured everything into that diary.Scott bent down and picked up the diary from the floor. The moment he flipped to the first page, his expression turned ugly."Scott's and Devin's attention shifted to Nicole ever since she moved into our house. Scott promised me that I would always be his closest sister and that bringing Nicole home was just to fulfill Dad's dying wish."Devin couldn't stand Nicole at first. He called her an uncultured, low-class, illegitimate daughter. But later, all it took was Nicole to shed a single tear and her claim that I had bullied her, and they would easily believe her words. They turned their backs on me and condemned me."Reading up to this point, Scott lost all patience to continue. He tossed the diary into the trash can, gritted his teeth, and hissed, "Shirley

Nicole's eyes widened as she looked at Devin, her voice shaking with hurt. "I can't believe you secretly had a baby with Shirley, Devin."He soothed her by saying, "Don't listen to Vanessa's nonsense. Shirley would've shown up with the baby to make a scene a long time ago if she really had one."Still, he didn't sound as certain as before.Vanessa ignored the interruption and continued, "She couldn't because she had no money! She had blood drawn from her for years and was abused for months in the psychiatric hospital. She only discovered she was pregnant after she escaped."The doctor strongly advised against keeping the baby, and she didn't want him either."A sharp, bitter ache tightened in my chest as I remembered the day I found out I was pregnant. I had desperately wanted an abortion, but the baby was already five months along, and the cost of an induced labor procedure was more than what I could afford.Vanessa's family had gone bankrupt and was buried under a mountain of d

Just before leaving, Devin glanced at Jordan, cradled in the bodyguard's arms. For a moment, it was as if he saw a trace of my face in Jordan's features, and he ordered the bodyguard to bring him home.The moment they arrived, he immediately arranged for a DNA test.For some reason, I found myself following Devin home, though I had spent the last two years by Vanessa's side.Meanwhile, Scott contracted his assistant, Adrian Hoover, to investigate my life over the past two years, along with my recent whereabouts.For the next three days, Devin and Scott acted as though nothing had happened. They went to work and lived their lives like normal, but whenever they were left alone, they looked utterly lost.Nicole complained about feeling unwell and came to them several times, but the two men, who had once catered to her every whim, turned her away in unison.Three days later, Adrian prepared two identical copies of the finalized investigation report—one for Scott and the other for Dev

Devin came to Scott. He had been crying for so long that his tears had run dry, leaving his eyes red and swollen.As he stumbled toward the door, a sudden blast of cold wind made him shudder.I followed him back to Scott's house next door and saw Scott sitting numbly on the couch, as if he had been drained of life. When he saw Devin approach, he stared for a long time before saying in a cold voice, "It's time we settle some scores."Devin nodded. He took out his phone, called his assistant, and had him take them to the hospital.In the hospital room, Nicole's IV drip had just finished running. Her complexion was sallow and unhealthy without her makeup.As it turned out, she hadn't been faking her illness after all. She genuinely needed a kidney transplant.Once the nurse left, she immediately dialed a number."I need you to come pick me up within the next two hours and make sure no one can trace where I'm going."Whatever the person on the other end of the line replied caused h

Following Nicole's death, Devin finally summoned the courage to ask Vanessa for my ashes.When he learned that she couldn't afford a cemetery plot and hadn't even been able to buy a proper urn for me, he broke down crying again.He didn't utter a single word in self-defense, no matter how hard she screamed at him and cursed him out.After collecting my remains, Scott buried me directly beside Mom, while Nicole's ashes were thrown into a filthy drainage ditch. Once I was finally laid to rest, he used his assets to pay off Vanessa's debts and transferred whatever remained to Jordan's name.When everything was dealt with, he turned himself in to the police and took sole responsibility for Nicole's death so that Devin wasn't implicated.After Scott went to prison, Devin redesigned our old home and restored it to the old aesthetic I used to love. He would sit in my favorite lounge chair with Jordan in his arms and stare blankly into space.I watched him sit there, whispering my name o