All Chapters of My Sister Put Me on Trial: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

10 Chapters

Chapter 1

Beth had called a Family council.This meeting was about me, a trial over what had happened to our adopted sister, Mia Turner, eight years ago.Rifles lined every wall of the council chamber.The Family elders closed in around me, hurling accusations.I was already wasted from illness. I'd just coughed up blood and hadn't even caught my breath before they bound me hand and foot and lashed me in place at the center of the room.An old man's cane cracked down hard across my spine."How can you be so heartless, Selena! She was your sister! She lived with you for twenty years!"You watched her die and did nothing! How could you?!"The blows nearly broke me apart.Blood sprayed from my mouth.Before I could react, my elderly father, Dominic Turner, pointed at me. "This is how you treated your sister. She can't rest in peace because of you."This Family has always stood together. How did we raise such an ungrateful snake?"One of the elders spoke up. "I heard that when her mother begged her

Chapter 2

The first image was the day Mia and I were rescued.We'd been dumped in the corner of an abandoned factory.That day, Mia was covered head to toe in burns and barely alive.My arm had been scorched in the same fire, the scars still there to this day.When our parents found us, I was lying on the ground, holding Mia, sobbing so hard I couldn't breathe.Everyone grabbed me and kept asking what the kidnapper looked like, where he'd gone. Then Mia woke. The first word out of her mouth was "sister."Then she was gone. When they asked me what the kidnapper looked like, I shook my head and said I hadn't seen anything.No one believed me.Mia had been the Family heir. I was merely the backup, and our parents hadn't even wanted that. The only reason was that Beth had been ill at the time.I hadn't named the killer, so they all assumed I was hiding it on purpose.They took Mia away. I was left behind.I dragged myself through the wreckage, crawling forward as the rain poured down, blurring my vi

Chapter 3

Beth grew more frantic. She jammed in more extractor ports.The needles drove into my scalp. Blood ran down from my forehead.I screamed until my voice went raw. The images on the screen flickered and jumped, scene after scene. The pain nearly suffocated me.Then the screen froze.The footage stopped on the moments before Mia and I were rescued. She'd been beaten bloody. She was barely conscious. I was holding her, weeping."Mia, hold on!"The kidnapper had gone to douse the place with gasoline. In this part of my memory, all I could see was Mia. The killer was nowhere in frame.My voice was shredded from crying. I wiped the blood off Mia's face and begged the kidnapper to let her go.I told him I'd stay behind as his hostage.I said I'd accept any death.Tears streamed down my face. Watching this footage, the room erupted in shocked murmurs."How could she...""Why was she like that?""Her memory is all about Mia. There's no image of the killer. Does that mean... the only person who m

Chapter 4

"No!" Beth slammed her fist on the table."I want her conscious and suffering when the killer is found!""But... this is interfering with the extraction."Beth glared at me, her nails digging into the table. "Selena, how are you still this lucky? It should've been you who died that day!"Even now, you still won't talk. Why?!"Turn up the current! I don't care what it takes. Get those memories out of her! Inject more!"The current surged to maximum. My bones felt like they were being ground apart. White foam leaked from the corner of my mouth.A vein bulged at Beth's temple."Why would you rather die than say it?!"Beth had asked me that question many times. At Mia's funeral, someone mentioned that Mia's last word had been "sister."Everyone had crowded around me, demanding to know who did it.Beth went from believing me to doubting me to hating me, all in the span between the funeral and the burial.I was thrown out of the Family. Mia's loyalists came after me. I had no choice but to f

Chapter 5

Shouts erupted from the crowd. They stared at the screen and yelled, "That's the crime scene!""The truth is about to come out!"Beth stepped forward, her ankles trembling.The image cut to the scene. My face appeared on the screen.Then a wall of smoke filled the display and swallowed me from view.Another face flashed onto the screen. A man wearing a mask.He appeared for only an instant before turning away.I was barely conscious, reaching out, grabbing the edge of his jacket.I left a bloody handprint on the hem of his suit before he spun around and kicked me off. Blood sprayed from my mouth.The smoke billowed up again.He vanished from the frame.Beth's heart raced. She gripped my shoulders, shaking me. "Who is he?!"Where's his face?! Why is he wearing a mask?!"Her voice cracked. Her pupils burned red. She ran to the technician and grabbed him by the collar, shaking him."What's happening?! Go back! Replay it!"The technician's face had gone white. He wiped the cold sweat from

Chapter 6

When this scene appeared, the room erupted in murmurs and whispers that crashed over the hall like a wave."Why is this in her memories?!""Marco was shot to death at the docks. It was while he was searching for Mia's killer. He was assassinated.""Must've been the same person!""She's truly heartless. She won't name the killer, and now she's rubbing salt in everyone's wounds."Dominic bowed his head and cried.Marco had served the Family for decades, risking his life time and again. He'd commanded deep respect. The Family owed much of its success to him.Someone hurled a glass at me.It shattered against my forehead. Blood ran freely."Even on death's door, you won't spare anyone! I never imagined the Family had someone this cruel!""Even if you won't name the killer, you didn't have to put this on display! You're vile!"Then Marco appeared in my memories.The room erupted in outrage, and their hatred for me deepened.Beth's eyes went dead. Her shoulders locked. She turned to me with

Chapter 7

Monica's face appeared on the screen.She carried the suit jacket home, hands shaking, and opened a safe.She knelt on the floor and wept in silence.There, on the screen, clear as day: the hem of the suit jacket, stained with a bloody handprint. My handprint, pressed into the fabric when I'd grabbed the killer.The moment this image appeared, the entire room drew a sharp breath.Monica's face turned white. Her hands loosened from my throat.Someone in the crowd shouted, "How is that possible?! That's the killer's jacket!""That's the handprint Selena left on it!""The masked killer was Marco! That's why Monica panicked and took his jacket!""A perfect misdirection.""But why... why did Selena kill Marco?"Beth couldn't process it. Her knees buckled, and she staggered backward step by step, eyes glued to the screen.On the footage, Monica wiped her tears with the back of her hand.She hid the jacket inside the safe, carried it to the docks, and in the darkness, bit down on her lip to k

Chapter 8

The words were barely out of her mouth.The room erupted in fury and suspicion.Catherine couldn't hold back any longer. She rushed at Monica and seized her by the throat. "Why did he kill my daughter?!"We gave him everything! Why would he do this?!"Her eyes were filled with despair. The veins on the backs of her hands stood out like cords. The hatred in her was terrifying to behold.Monica's eyes were wide with fear."I'm sorry...""Sorry doesn't bring back my daughter!"Beth collapsed to the floor, too drained to even argue.The room looked at me. For the first time, there was pity in their eyes, but not a single person spoke up for me.A cold gleam flickered in Beth's eyes. When she looked at me, the hatred was still there."This is your doing! Marco would never have killed Mia. You killed Marco, and now there's no one left to prove anything!"Your memory doesn't show him committing the murder."All it shows is you, half-dead after the explosion, grabbing his jacket."For all we k

Chapter 9

My consciousness began to fade.The past came flooding back. My memories tangled together: the girl studying at the academy and the woman counting inventory on the docks. The two versions of me overlapped, and then Mia appeared.She smiled at me.Beth ran over and took my hand. "We'll be together forever."I ran after her, and in that moment, the thing I'd buried deepest was finally unearthed.It was a casino, eight years ago.A group of gamblers, out of their minds with desperation, had pulled guns on the dealers. Guards surrounded the entire building.But in the private room, Marco was on his knees in front of Mia and me.He begged, "Please don't kill him. He's my brother. He made a mistake. Give him a chance to make it right."Mia's expression didn't change. "Anyone who causes trouble in the casino dies. No exceptions."You're my father's underboss. You know the rules."A gunshot echoed from the main floor.Marco spun around, eyes wide. When he looked back at Mia, a flicker of resen

Chapter 10

Monica found me.I'd fled to the small town down south just to find some peace.But she tracked me down. Before Beth showed up with her people, Monica was on her knees in front of me.She sobbed and slapped herself again and again."I know what we did was wrong. But please, don't say anything."You already killed my husband. Consider it justice for Mia."If Beth finds out..."The Don can't know either!"Please. Our child is still young. Beth is innocent in all this. She'll be dragged into it too."It's over now. Please. I'm begging you."Monica clutched at my clothes, pleading.She kept begging and slapping herself.I pressed my lips together. I knew Beth led with her heart. Learning the truth would destroy her.I wiped my tears and swallowed the truth whole.The last word Mia said before she died wasn't meant for me. When she called out "sister," she was calling for Beth.She knew everything.Even now, I still didn't understand what she'd been trying to say.I kept the secret for eigh

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