Before I Die Young
The day my birth parents found me, the reunion banquet they threw turned into their funeral.
My parents and their adopted daughter, Leila, died of food poisoning that night. The only one who survived was my older brother, Alpha Kian. He didn’t like sweets, so he never touched the cake.
The cake that I handed to them myself.
“So you want to take Leila’s place.
“You’re just jealous because she got all our love!
“She was the only one who ever accepted you, and you still killed her!”
Those were Kian’s exact words as he shouted at me right outside the hospital room.
From that day on, I became a sinner.
To make up for it, I barely slept four hours a night and worked five jobs just to buy b