Chapter 16
Nettie really had died in that explosion.
What she never expected was that, before Calvin or Hurst could get to her body, the pharmaceutical research institute she’d once been in contact with swooped in first.
It was only then that Nettie learned this company wasn’t just developing new drugs–they were also experimenting with a mysterious system.
With the system’s help, Nettle was given a new body, a second chance at life in the truest sense 8
But if she wanted to keep this body forever, she had to play by the system’s rules: complete the task it had set for her.X
The mission was clear–within two months, she had to send everyone who had ruined her life straight to hell
At first, Nettie wanted no part of it. All she wanted was to break free from Calvin and Hurst, once and for all!
They’d hurt her enough. Digging up old wounds would only make the pain worse.ll
But everything changed when she saw her brother and her ex–fiance–men who should have loved and protected her–show no remorse. Instead, they blamed everything on Charis, unloading their guilt and fury onto her.
Sure, Charis had made mistakes, but justice should be left to the police, to the courts–not to their own twisted vendetta.
Especially since the ones truly at fault were Calvin and Hurst.0
If Calvin and Hurst had only trusted her–if they hadn’t been so arrogant, so unwilling to listen, so blind to the truth that was right in front of them–none of this would have happened. She would never have been pushed to the brink.
Yet now, here they were, walking free, untouched by consequence.
Why? Why should they get away with everything?
Nettie refused to accept it. That’s when she agreed to the system’s terms and vowed to return for revenge–on her own terms. Thunder cracked, sudden and violent, a jagged bolt of lightning illuminating the defiance and fury in Nettie’s eyes. After Calvin and Hurst found a girl who looked strikingly like Nettie, they couldn’t bear to let her out of their sight. No went, she was always with them.3
matter where +
they
Because Calvin and Hurst had split, Nettie no
The first week, naturally, belonged to Calvin.
now spent one week at Calvin’s estate, then the next at Hurst’s, and so on.
To celebrate his “sister’s” miraculous return from the dead, Calvin organized a press conference.
Under the glare of cameras, facing a sea of reporters, he announced that the young woman by his side was his real sister–the Beaumont family’s long–lost heiress.B
Most reporters and bloggers wanted to call him delusional, but money talk?…
families around.3
and the Beaumonts were still one of the most powerful
So, wisely, the press and the public played along, nodding and smiling as if they believed every word Calvin said.
Seeing everyone accept his story, Calvin finally let himself breathe.
Despite Nettie’s insistence that she didn’t know him, Calvin couldn’t shake the gut feeling that she really was his sister. He had no evidence–nothing but intuition–but in his heart, he was certain. That was why he was so desperate to make it up to her B
The first step was to publicly declare that he had–and would only ever have–one sister.
Back when Charis had appeared, Calvin, moved by her plight, had lavished her with affection. He’d even announced in front of everyone that Charis was his sister too, which had devastated Nettin–especially after he’d promised her she was the only one who mattered to him.
He’d broken his
is word first. That’s why Nettle had been so beartbroken, so determined to leave him behind, piece by piece.
But now that she was back, Calvin was determined to make amends, to apologize for everything he’d done in the past–especially the pain he’d caused while chasing after Charis.
Today was
s just the beginning, but things s were o
going much better than Calvin had hoped.
Not only did the press and the public support him–even Nettle, sitting quietly beside him, seemed to accept it all, at least on the surface
