Todos os capítulos de Rebirth: Who Needs a Bloodsucking Family?: Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 10

My heart lurched, but I forced myself to look composed as I shook my head, keeping my voice even."This is proof, Lauren," I said.Lauren Hefford looked down at me. "Proof of what?"Instead of answering, I set my phone in front of her. On the screen, Henry Hefford was tearing his own SAT admission ticket into pieces.In our past life, he'd pinned that exact crime on me.To make up for his ruined opportunities, my mother, Rowena Hefford, and my father, Jonathan Hefford, forced me to surrender my acceptance letter to Dreston University so I'd spend an entire year repeating senior classes alongside him.So, when I got a second chance at life, the first thing I did was install a hidden camera in Henry's room.I'd been certain that once my older sister, Lauren, saw the footage, she would believe me. More than that, I thought she would finally take my side.But even after the video ended, her expression remained completely unchanged.She held out her hand and said in a tone that bro

I went downstairs and found Lauren in the living room, just as she was about to leave.I stepped into her path.She frowned, already impatient. "What now?"Looking straight into her eyes, I reminded her, "Lauren, you promised me. You said you'd keep Henry under control."A contemptuous laugh escaped her."Ethan, are you forgetting the other half of that deal? You need to stay out of trouble."With that, she shoved me aside and walked out without looking back.Stay out of trouble? What exactly did that mean to her?Was I supposed to do what I'd done in my previous life, when they cornered me in a bathroom, soaked me from head to toe with freezing water, and expected me to suffer through it in silence?Was that her definition of behaving?…The next day, shortly after morning break, several boys surrounded me and forced me into the school's equipment room.The door slammed shut behind me, followed by the click of the lock. Then, Henry's malicious voice came from the other sid

My body went rigid, and I slowly turned around.Lauren stood a short distance away. She looked far more exhausted than I remembered, with dark circles under her eyes. When she spoke, there was a trace of weariness and confusion in her voice."Why didn't you come home? Mom and Dad have been worried about you. I promised I'd let you take your exams, and you finished them. So why did you run away?"I looked at her, a woman who shared my blood yet felt more foreign to me than a stranger, and suddenly, the situation seemed utterly ridiculous."What did you think I was going to do?" I asked, looking her dead in the eye as I enunciated every single syllable. "Go back so I could die all over again?"The color drained from Lauren's face in an instant. She staggered backward, looking as if my words had physically drained every ounce of strength from her body.I didn't spare her another glance. I turned around, dragged my suitcase through the campus gates, and left both her and the people

Just as Dad's carefully staged interview managed to calm the storm slightly, an anonymous post started making the rounds on the campus forums and social media platforms.The title read, "The Truth About Dreston's New Academic Golden Boy, E.H. Talk About Biting the Hand That Feeds You."Whoever wrote it claimed to know our family intimately and laid out an elaborate story about an ungrateful impostor stealing someone else's life.According to the post, I had repaid my family's kindness by resenting my sickly younger brother, deliberately setting him up again and again, then running away from home and playing the victim in the media. By painting myself as the one who had suffered, I supposedly won public sympathy while dragging my family's name through the mud.Every line was carefully engineered to paint me as a twisted, ungrateful villain.I stared at the photo attached to the post. Henry was smiling brightly beside me, looking innocent and carefree, while I stood farther back i

The vase hit the floor with a deafening crash and shattered into pieces."This is all Ethan's fault! Everything that's happened to this family is because of him!"Henry was completely hysterical, dragging his fingernails down the wall with an ear-splitting screech. "Why don't you love me anymore, Mom? Why are you believing all the trash he's feeding you? I hate him! I want him dead!"Faced with his meltdown, Mom was strangely calm.She didn't scream, and she didn't lose her temper. She simply stared at Henry's face, twisted by jealousy and rage, until every trace of warmth disappeared from her eyes.It was no longer as though she were looking at her beloved son but at a piece of evidence.At that moment, Mom's phone, which she'd left on the living room coffee table, suddenly began to ring.Martha instinctively glanced at the caller ID.A second later, she frantically sent me a message. "Mrs. Hefford just got a call from the DNA lab!"When the notification popped up on my scr