Chapter 3
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Romance
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7DWords:773Update time:25/05/26 19:15:52
I've always known there's something wrong with me.
I have the darkest and most shameful thoughts about my brother.
The last time I saw Ryan was on my twenty-first birthday.
As usual, he had someone deliver a selection of haute couture dresses and threw a grand party for me.
But he refused to see me.
I walked through the living room lit by flickering lights and past the pool, finding his car parked outside as expected.
Seeing me through the slightly open car window, he paused.
"You should be inside celebrating your birthday with your friends," he said, his tone detached.
I swallowed the words I intended to say.
In a mocking tone, I responded:
"I came out to check since you missed my party. Who knows, maybe you weren't here because you are dead."
He tilted his head slightly:"Disappointed to see I'm alive?"
I scoffed, "Of course."
"After all, if you were really dead, all of the Rivers family wealth would be mine.Then, I'd have to pop champagne to celebrate."
Ryan fell silent.
The streetlights were too dim to illuminate the car's interior.
His face was mostly hidden in shadows, his expression unclear.
At that moment, I felt a perverse sense of relief.
It was better not to see clearly.
That way, I couldn't see the blatant disgust in his eyes.
I know Ryan despises me.
When I was fourteen, my mother and his father died in a car crash during an argument.
Since then, every time we met, he would greet me with a cold face, asking me to keep my distance.
I would defiantly retort, "You think I'm desperate for you? I can't even eat at the same table with you."
Over time, our relationship became increasingly strained.
To avoid seeing me, Ryan even moved out of the Rivers family villa where he had lived for over a decade.
He is always calm and rational, but he can't even maintain basic decency around me.
It seems he hates me to the core yet cannot escape me.
I've often wondered.
If I died, what would Ryan think? Would he feel even a trace of sorrow?Or would he just laugh and tell everyone:
"My sister? She and I share no blood.Her death is merely a relief to me."