Swap Lives Novels & Stories

Zacharias sold whatever valuables he had and wrote to his family just to take out a loan. In the end, he gathered 500 dollars and gave it to Christina. Christina married John, and she looked glamorous. Once we got married, I gave Zacharias an IOU and told him I'd pay him back. "You don't have to." He tore the IOU apart. "Money's not important. Sometimes a harder life works wonders for a scholar." He turned on the lamp and started reading, his face unreadable. I stared at his profile and was reminded of his end in my previous life.

When it was time and we arrived at the place for the exchange, we parked the car beneath the abandoned building. Knowing we might be under constant surveillance, we dared not make any reckless moves. All we could do was repeatedly instruct Mom on what to do. She, in her muddled state, couldn't understand. She kept flashing a silly smile at me. Hope was on the verge of a breakdown, her fingers digging into Mom's shoulders as she barked, her eyes bloodshot. "When you go into that building, hand the money to the man with Melody. Do you hear me?" Mom didn't even flinch from the pain; she only looked at Hope in confusion.

“Noah, I can’t take it anymore. Marcus is too cold. The dock incident almost went wrong because of me. He got angry and won’t even let me touch him… “Can you help me? I just want someone to rely on. Someone I can survive within the Zillmann family…” Noah raised his brows slightly, took my hand, and kissed the back of it. He paused deliberately, then looked up at me teasingly before pulling me into his arms. I forced down the disgust in my heart, trembling as I pretended to sob in his embrace, while slipping a miniature microphone into his suit jacket. “Tomorrow, help me with one thing. Once it’s done, you’ll be the new Donna Zillmann of the Zillmann family, and I’ll be your new support.”

Instantly, I shifted into the correct position. "Too late, Ankle-Biter," he chuckled, a humorless sound. "You're already dead. Try again. From the top." The drills lasted until the rest of Wayfinder woke. It was only when Gabe came around shouting for me that Leon allowed me to return to my post. The evenings were worse. Painful. Because he was making me shift. Training my body to change regardless of the moon or the innate danger mechanisms all wolves have.

"I don't understand what you mean, Melanie. The whole nation envies you for marrying a man like him. You have a net worth people can only dream of, and life's perfect for you. I'd never set you up." She darted ahead and grabbed my sleeve. "Don't play dumb with me! He married you in our previous lives! You knew he was a monster, but you were waiting for me to step right into it! You didn't tell me anything! You knew! You knew!" I flung her hand away and sneered. "Ah, so you finally get it. You're not the only one reborn with memories." … In my previous life, I kindly made a bowl of meatball stew for Jonathan. He was a vagrant back then.

"But Elisa, here's what you don't know. Even though each host of the system only gets three swaps, the system passes on when the host dies. "If you push us too far, I'd rather die and let Poppy inherit the system. Then, she can keep swapping with you for the rest of your life. You'll never escape us." I smiled. "You really think I don't know anything? The inheritance is random. If you die, the system might end up with me instead." After she left in anger, my relaxed expression returned to how I truly felt inside. I was not as calm as I had looked. I had overlooked the fact that after her death, the system could pass to another woman with the Hart surname instead.

Every month on the 15th is the day I swap lives with Melody Foster. 18 years ago, a hospital mix-up places our IVF embryos in each other's mothers. After the truth comes out, my biological parents want their real daughter, and my adoptive parents want theirs. They arrange for Melody and me to rotate between the two homes on a monthly basis, switching every 15th. From then on, I become the burden neither family wants. In whichever home Melody stays, there are endless snacks and drinks, thousands of dollars in monthly allowance, and the sunny bedroom is always reserved for her. In whichever home I stay, there's nothing but plain meals and a windowless s

“Why didn’t you say anything earlier? Why do something this humiliating on the wedding day? How am I supposed to explain this to Mark?” Lily pointed at me. “Just let Emma marry him.” The moment I heard that, I realized my sister had been reborn, too. We were twins. Because of our looks, matchmakers had been coming to our house nonstop since we turned eighteen. To pay for our younger brother’s education and future marriage, our mother betrothed us to two families. One was Jackson, the mayor’s son. The other was Mark Hollander, the richest man in town. In my previous life, although Jackson was the mayor’s son, he was unattractive, and his father was so honest that their family was even poorer

Once I get reborn, the first thing I will do is swap mates with my cousin, Clara Evonfall. In my previous life, Clara and I had held our mate-bonding ceremonies on the same day. Clara, a docile and gentle she-wolf, was forced to become the mate of Gilbert Vargas, the cold and aloof Alpha of the Bloodthorn pack. On their bonding anniversary, Gilbert abandoned Clara just so he could be with his childhood sweetheart, Joanna Penning. Because of that incident, Clara and Gilbert gave each other the cold shoulder for the next 50 years.

It was not something any werewolf could do, but it was more of less one that she- and only she- was required to, according to her parents. It was a rite, known as the Wolf Swap Rite; a painful weekly process that allows a werewolf unsatisfied with the wolf they were born with to exchange it for a new wolf more fitting for them. At least… That was what Ellie’s parents had told her, when they made her undergo this rite for the past two years. It was not because she was unsatisfied with her wolf, as it was just that they want her to be a better werewolf than any other. The only way to do that was to switch her wolf- her fate- for a new one.