All Chapters of Reborn: Leave Before Their Wedding: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Shawn Yates died on the operating table, his eyes fixed on the lavish wedding being broadcast around the world. On the television, Ethan Yates gently slipped a ring onto Wendy Stone’s finger, and the happy couple accepted everyone’s congratulations…Now that fate had given him another chance at life, he refused to make a fool of himself again.“Fine. I’ll go.” He picked up the plane ticket. His voice was startlingly calm.His parents stared at him in shock. They hadn’t expected him to agree so readily.“Shawn, you’re really leaving? You’re not planning some other way to ruin your brother’s wedding, are you?”Ruin it?What a joke. Wendy was supposed to be with him.His parents took her from him and handed her to his older brother.More than twenty years ago, Ethan was diagnosed with leukemia. Their parents decided without hesitation to have another child, and Shawn was born.His umbilical cord blood saved Ethan’s life. From then on, Shawn lived in his brother’s shadow.Ethan was sick

Shawn ignored Ethan’s taunt and turned to leave.Ethan frowned when he saw Shawn trying to get away. He was about to scold him again when a familiar figure appeared in the corridor.An idea struck him. He grabbed Shawn’s hand and dragged him into the fountain.Neither of them could swim. They thrashed in the water and cried for help.Shawn’s wounds reopened, and blood spread through the fountain.Cold water rushed into his nose, making him cough.The pain drained what little strength he had left, and he sank.Just as he was about to suffocate, he saw Wendy run toward them and jump into the water.She swam straight past him without a glance or an outstretched hand. She grabbed Ethan and pulled him to the edge.Ethan held her close, his eyes red. He looked at Shawn, who was still struggling in the water, and feigned concern.“Shawn accidentally pushed me in. Wendy, you know he’s my only brother. Please get him out.”Wendy looked at Shawn in the fountain, her face turning cold.“Ethan, st

Shawn hadn’t expected Wendy to recognize the watch when she failed to recognize him.Conflicting emotions rose in him. He was about to speak when Ethan cut him off.“Shawn, why did you take my watch without asking?”Ethan came over and tried to wrench it off Shawn’s wrist. He pulled so hard that his nails left bloody scratches across Shawn’s hand.Shawn grunted in pain and tried to pull free. Ethan used the movement to throw himself backward.Wendy’s expression changed. She caught Ethan instinctively, then looked at Shawn with dark, furious eyes.“So that’s it. I thought…”“You stole Ethan’s watch, and when he caught you, you attacked him! Shawn, you disgust me!”A chill ran through Shawn. She believed Ethan without giving him a chance to explain.He raised his bleeding hand, unable to hide the pain and despair in his voice.“If you remember this watch, didn’t you notice that Ethan never wore it after you regained your sight? That’s because he never even knew it existed. He isn’t the o

At dinnertime, a servant told them Martin and Caroline had booked a private room at Briarhill Hotel and wanted them to eat there.Shawn planned to make an excuse and stay home, but Ethan pulled him into the back seat of the car.Throughout the drive, Wendy answered everything Ethan said at once.“Wendy, after we get married, can we go to Westmere for our honeymoon? We can see the northern lights and go to fashion shows. I’ll take so many pictures of you, then make a different selfie of us the wallpaper on your phone, computer, and tablet!”“Of course. I’ll ask a few photographers to teach me how to take better pictures too. I want to capture our happiest moments and hang the photos all over my office and study. Then whenever I miss you, I’ll only have to look up.”“You have to keep that promise. When we have children, we can look through the albums with them and remember all our trips. If we have a boy, I hope he’s tall and handsome like me. If we have a girl, I’d rather she take after

As the plane slowly took off, Shawn stared out the window in a daze.The buildings he knew so well grew smaller beneath him.He felt no longing for them.All he felt was relief.At last, he was leaving the place he had been expected to call home.Even as a young child, Shawn wanted to leave. He saw how differently Martin and Caroline treated their two sons.In every part of their lives, they treated Ethan as family and Shawn like a stranger.He even wondered whether he was adopted. It might explain why they treated him so differently.But he was their biological son and Ethan’s younger brother.That truth hurt even more.It meant there was only one explanation: they didn’t love him.That was why they treated him differently.They only brought him into the world to save Ethan.Sometimes Shawn wondered whether he would have been born at all if Ethan hadn’t needed his umbilical cord blood.As for Wendy, he once thought she would save him from his loneliness.For so long, she was the perso