This time, my parents brought Lily and me onto the cruise ship that had once claimed my life.The familiar deck.Every night, after all the guests fell asleep, I had to kneel on the floor and scrub it until it gleamed.Before I could even rest for a moment, I had to go to the cargo hold on the right and haul cargo.The blisters on my palms burst with blood, scabbed over, and split open again and again.“Millie, you should work in the lower hold. You’re shy, and you won’t have to interact with strangers there.”Mom pushed me toward the bottom deck.The lower hold was filled with heavy industrial chemicals. I developed leukemia in my previous life because I spent so much time there.This time, I refused to suffer through it again, even if dying was the only way to escape.“I’m going to work at the front desk.” That had been Lily’s job in my previous two lives.All she had to do was sit at the front desk and look after the guests’ luggage.“No! Lily can’t work in the lower hold.”Mom look
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