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Chapter 1

The room went quiet for a few seconds.My brother frowned at me. "What condition?"As soon as he finished speaking, I heard hurried footsteps in the hall.My mother pushed the door open, her eyes still red. She'd probably been out there listening the whole time."Francesca, if you let Aurora have the transplant, I'll agree to anything you want."She sat on the edge of the bed and reached for my hand.I pulled away without thinking.Her hand stopped in midair, and she looked embarrassed.I said quietly, "I want you to celebrate my birthday with me."My brother looked startled. "That's it?"I looked down at the needle marks all over the back of my hand, and my eyes stung.They'd forgotten that I hadn't celebrated my birthday since I turned ten, the year Aurora was brought to the estate.Nine years. Every year on my birthday, something more important came up.Aurora won a piano competition. Aurora rode a horse for the first time. Aurora was targeted by a rival family and needed someone by

Chapter 2

The next day, while a nurse was changing my dressings, my mother came in carrying a white box.The smell of yogurt caught me off guard.Since my diagnosis, I'd been throwing up everything I ate. The only thing that settled my stomach, even for a little while, was Mom's homemade sugar-free yogurt cake.She'd consulted a top nutritionist and doctors to make sure the cake wouldn't put any extra strain on my body.After Aurora arrived, my mother never made it for me again."We're here for your birthday."She set the box on the nightstand without opening it. "Your father and your brother will be here any minute."She paused. "We'll be staying with Aurora for the next few days, so we thought we'd celebrate your birthday early."Bitterness rose in my chest, but I said nothing.She took a diamond necklace out of her bag and put it on the table. "Francesca, this is from Aurora."It was the necklace my brother had given me for my 18th birthday.I'd thought they'd finally remembered my birthday.

Chapter 3

In my new room, the nurse set up my IV again.But I noticed she was holding an ordinary painkiller instead.I spoke up. "Where's my medication?"It was the heart medication the family paid a fortune to get from the lab in the north district. The lab could only produce one dose a week.The nurse stumbled over her words. "Ms. Vitelli, the pharmacy says your prescription has been changed."I put a hand on the cart. "Who approved that?"She hesitated. "The Don... Ms. Aurora said she wants the same medication you're on."I went still.Her type of heart failure wasn't the same as mine.That drug did almost nothing for her. For me, it was the difference between life and death.But my father had handed it over anyway, just to make her feel better.I called him. It rang a long time before he picked up.In the background, I could hear my mother comforting Aurora while Dante went over the details of her surgery with a doctor."Why did my medication go to Aurora?" I asked.He brushed it off. "She'

Chapter 4

On the day they'd promised to celebrate my birthday, Aurora was wheeled into surgery.Once they'd confirmed everything was going smoothly, my parents and brother came to my room.My mother came to my bedside and took my hand. "Francesca, I'm here to celebrate your birthday."My father actually looked gentle for once. "Since we're all here, let's make the most of it. Come with us to see Aurora later. She wants to hear you say you forgive her when she wakes up."I didn't answer.Early that morning, I'd gone into acute heart failure.After they stabilized me again, the doctor said my heart was now too weak for me to even stand.Not one of them noticed.My mother turned to my brother. "Where's the cake? Didn't you say you'd ordered it?"He froze. Something flickered across his face, then he frowned. "Aurora was scared last night. I stayed with her and forgot."My mother's expression changed, but then she smiled. "It's fine. I'll send someone out now. It won't take long."My father checked

Chapter 5

Just beyond the wall, a deafening cheer went up in the hallway.The attending doctor was thrilled. "Aurora's surgery went perfectly! There's no sign of rejection!"My mother clung to my father, barely able to speak through her tears. "Thank God. My Aurora is going to live!"I stood behind them and listened.Strangely, my heart had stopped hurting. The crushing weight that had made it so hard to breathe was gone.I looked down and saw the light from the hallway passing right through me.There was no shadow on the floor.In the room down the hall where they'd been trying to save me, a doctor stopped chest compressions. The monitor showed a flat line."Time of death, 2:47 p.m."A nurse removed the tubes from the body on the bed and drew a white sheet over it.So I was dead.As they wheeled my body out, Aurora was being wheeled back from surgery.The two beds passed within six feet of each other.My parents crowded around her while my brother held her hand. Not one of them noticed the body

Chapter 6

During the two weeks Aurora spent in the hospital, it seemed no one thought of me once.My mother personally made sure Aurora took her medication every day. My father put all family business on hold to stay by her side through rehab. My brother barely left her side.When she was discharged, the three of them threw her a party.The living room was full of balloons and flowers, and my father invited a crowd of relatives and friends to celebrate her new life.My brother ordered a three-tier cake, and my mother put the party hat on her head herself.One of the relatives glanced around and asked casually, "Where's Francesca? Why isn't she back?"The laughter in the room stopped for a beat.Just then, the advisor hurried in to tell my father that the lab in the north district had finished a new batch of the heart medication.My father waved a hand, impatient. "Send it to Francesca's room. And see whether she's done sulking."She's a grown woman, and she spent months fighting with her own fam

Chapter 7

The cake knife slipped out of my mother's hand and hit the floor.She stared at him.Dante forced the words out. "The hospital says nobody has claimed Francesca's body."My mother went white, her voice shaking. "That's not possible... She was much worse when she was 15, and she survived, didn't she?"My father's expression hardened. "If it's true, why did the hospital wait two weeks to tell us?"Dante suddenly remembered the envelope. He yanked it from his inner coat pocket, where it had been sitting unopened.His hands shook as he opened it. Inside was a critical-condition notice waiting for a family member's signature.My father saw it and snapped, "You had that envelope this whole time and never opened it? You didn't even go find the doctor?"My brother opened his mouth, but had nothing to say in his defense. "I..."The doctor's voice came through the phone again. "Please come to the hospital and claim Ms. Vitelli's body as soon as you can."After that, the living room was completel

Chapter 8

My mother suddenly thought of my first surgery, when I was seven.The doctors had said the surgery was risky. She held me in the hallway and cried all night.When they wheeled me in, she ran down the hall after the bed, promising over and over that she'd be waiting right outside.My father used to put all family business aside to drive me to school and pick me up himself.Once, I passed out in class. He rushed over so quickly that his coat was on inside out.My brother had protected me since we were children.When someone from a rival family mocked me for being a sickly little thing, he went after them like he wanted blood.When my heart gave out at night, he carried me to the hospital on his back. Even after he fell and skinned his knees, he wouldn't stop.They used to be so afraid I'd die.So why did they stop being afraid?My mother slumped against the morgue drawer, crying so hard she could barely breathe. "She used to be the one we doted on most. How did things end up like this?"

Chapter 9

After my funeral, the house filled with a silence you could choke on.My mother sat staring into space, clutching my childhood stuffed rabbit. My father's hair turned white overnight.Then they uncovered Aurora's lies.While they were going through my things, a nurse handed over my phone.It held all the messages Aurora had sent to taunt me, along with a recording.The recording showed Aurora deliberately pulling out the IV line delivering my medication the day before her surgery.She sounded pleased with herself. "I poured your medicine down the toilet. Every last drop. I made up that story about a second heart. Once you're dead, Mom, Dad, and Dante will be mine alone."When my mother finished listening, she let out a piercing scream and collapsed.My father was shaking with rage, and he drew his gun.My brother's eyes were red as he went into Aurora's room.She took one look at them and shrank back. "What's wrong?"A second later, she put a hand to her chest and pretended to be weak

Chapter 10

My brother took my photo to the sea, where he'd promised to take me when we were children.Back then, the doctors had said I couldn't be out in the sea air. I couldn't risk getting cold.So he'd promised to take me once I was a little stronger.I did get stronger, but he took Aurora first.After that, I stopped bringing it up, and he assumed I no longer wanted to go.He sat on the sand for a long time, then lowered his head. His tears fell onto the photo."Francesca, I brought you to see the ocean."If there's a next life, don't be my sister again."Find a family that will actually love you."I looked at him. There wasn't much sadness left in me.After I died, I'd stayed near them and watched them regret everything far too late. Night after night, they asked themselves when they'd changed.None of it had anything to do with me anymore.I didn't want to leave with hatred in my heart, and I wasn't going to stay just because they regretted what they'd done.A soft light appeared far out o

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