All Chapters of The Twin Curse: My Parents' Regret After My Death : Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

My sister Elise Sinclair came home with a few long gashes across her back. Luckily they were shallow, nothing that touched the bone.She said she'd found some rare flower deep in the forest, growing right on the edge of a cliff. It glowed under the moonlight.She'd wanted to pick it for our mother. However, Elise slipped and fell. A tree branch caught her before she hit the ground. Her back got cut up in the fall, and she never even got the flower.She told the story with her eyes shining, like it was the best adventure of her life. Our parents, Levitt Sinclair and Maya Langley, were beside themselves with worry. They ordered her to rest at the Royal Healing House until she healed.I spent that entire month in agony, so bad I thought I might actually meet the Moon Goddess. But somehow, I clawed my way through it.I didn't understand it. Why was I the one carrying this sickness? Why did I have to suffer for my sister's pain?The pain felt like my body was being torn apart. After I

After I got kicked out of the house, I had nowhere to go. I searched through everything I owned, scraped together what little money I had, and checked into a run-down inn.There was no food there, no herbs, nothing.Whenever the pain hit so hard I couldn't stand, I'd curl up on the bed alone and grit my teeth through it.Right when I was bracing myself to push through the pain like I always did, a fresh wave of burning agony hit my face out of nowhere.It felt like someone had poured boiling water straight onto my skin. The pain was unbearable.I clawed at my own face with both hands, screaming loud enough to shake the walls. I was soaked in cold sweat, like I'd just been pulled out of water.I couldn't stop screaming. I thrashed on the bed, trying anything to make it stop.Thankfully, a woman who lived nearby heard me and rushed me to the Healing House.I was barely conscious from the pain. When I woke up, Dad and Mom were sitting by my bed. They looked furious. Meanwhile, Eli

I floated above it all, watching Dad carry Elise on his back while Mom pressed down on her wound. The three of them looked like a happy little family, and even with my heart already shattered, the sight still cut deep.If they knew I was dead, would they even shed a single tear for me?But no one could see me. All their attention was on Elise, fussing over every little thing, terrified she might be in pain.When I was the one dying, all they ever did was look at me coldly and tell me to stop faking it.It didn't matter anymore. I didn't need their love. All I wanted now was for Elise to get what she deserved.I followed them all the way back to the pack.Elise's injuries were serious, and the healers told her to rest. I watched my parents lovingly cut her steak into bite sized pieces and feed it to her themselves.At least I was dead now. I couldn't feel pain anymore, and I had no tears left to cry. Otherwise, watching this would have broken me all over again.Day after day, it

Mom didn't seem to hear Dad at all. She just stared at my body, her expression shifting slowly from confusion, to horror, to disbelief.With shaking hands, she reached out and gently turned my body over, revealing a face that was no longer recognizable.I'd been dead for days by then. My body had already started to decay, and I knew I must have looked horrifying.A sharp, terrified scream tore out of Mom's throat."No!"She dropped to the ground, her whole body shaking. She pointed at me with a trembling hand, screaming over and over."No! Thalia!"The sight was too much for her. Fear and regret overwhelmed her completely, and she couldn't hold herself together.I watched it all happen with cold detachment, though something in my chest still ached.I'd begged them for help so many times while I was alive, and they'd ignored every single one. If they'd shown me even a little care, I never would have died like that, alone and in agony.What good did their grief do now? Could it

Murmurs rippled through the crowd. The way people looked at Elise had changed completely, and the mocking whispers reached her ears from every direction.She'd never been on the receiving end of this kind of humiliation before.Fear and resentment crashed over her, and she shouted back at everyone."So what if I did it? I just wanted to be prettier! Why did Thalia and I have to be twins? Why did we have to look so alike? I just wanted you all to pay more attention to me! Is that such a crime?"Mom couldn't hold her fury back any longer. She stormed over and slapped Elise hard across the face. Elise's head snapped to the side, blood welling up at the corner of her mouth."Just to be prettier? Thalia was your own sister! You watched her suffer through all of that and you didn't feel a thing?"Elise let out a hollow laugh."I just didn't want your attention on her anymore! How was I supposed to know she was so pathetic that a little pain would actually kill her?"As she spoke, she