As I lay on the floor, my breathing came out weakly. I no longer had the strength to fight back.Naomi, my sister, was crying badly. To comfort her, I endured the pain and shook my head slightly.The enraged kidnapper grabbed my hair. “Are you the one who revealed our location?”My scalp hurt, and I was forced to look up.When we were first kidnapped, I had two of my fingers cut off. More were eventually cut off. When I no longer had any fingers left, the kidnappers moved to my feet.The mutilated parts were already putrid and necrotic. Every single day, they hurt.Compared to that, being beaten did not hurt as much.Yesterday, the kidnappers gave Naomi and I each one minute to talk to our parents.While Naomi cried and spoke to our mother, she also dropped hints as to where the kidnappers held us.It was no wonder why the kidnappers moved us elsewhere overnight. Our mother must have called the police.My parents cared a lot about Naomi. I wanted them to be happy, so I swore
My soul drifted out of that old, abandoned factory and levitated in the air. In the end, I stopped beside my parents.They were the one thing tying me to the world.My mother was crying nonstop in the living room while calling out Naomi’s name. “Naomi has never suffered like this!“Dawn running around with Naomi must have caused this. That’s why they were kidnapped,” she grumbled to my father.I cried out, “That’s not true! I didn’t run around! Naomi was the one who ran into an alley! I was the one who ran after her!”I wanted to defend myself, but my mother could not hear me.My father could only offer a comforting pat on her shoulder.Before the kidnapping, I wanted to visit Naomi’s school, so I went with our driver to pick her up, but we ended up getting kidnapped in the alley not far from the school gate.My mother continued crying, “Dawn came from the countryside and doesn’t act like our daughter at all. Was there an error with the paternity test?“Once they come back,
The kidnappers who had cut my fingers and feet warned my parents not to do anything stupid. Otherwise, they would be delivering Naomi’s fingers to them next time.On the day they called the police, Naomi had provided hints of the address while seemingly complaining about her situation. Since my mother knew her like the back of her hand, she soon realized what Naomi was trying to say.But they were too late. When the police arrived, the kidnappers had already moved us to another location.In their rage, the kidnappers accidentally killed me.When the next day arrived, the kidnappers really did give my parents Naomi’s finger.When my mother received the package, she was not at all surprised to see the finger inside.After all, she had received such a package a few times over the last few days, and she threw the package into the trash can beside her.If she had taken a closer look, she would have noticed that the finger was thin and fair, which was a sign that her owner usually too
When we were kidnapped, I protected Naomi and stood in front of her as a shield, but she even refused to tell my parents that I was dead?“Of course. She’s also our daughter. Once we pay for her ransom, we’ll send her back to the Clark family, and she won’t bother you again.” My mother hugged Naomi and comforted her.When she heard this, panic flashed briefly on Naomi’s face, but she soon hid it.Naomi was sent to the hospital for a check-up, but she was not injured whatsoever aside from a missing finger.My mother finally felt relieved. “Thank goodness you’re not hurt elsewhere, Naomi.”I watched in envy as she hugged Naomi. My mother had treated me gently in the beginning, but later on, she ignored me.She had forgotten that she still had another daughter, who was already dead and went through grievous torture before she died.If my mother learned that I was dead, she should be happy. After all, she no longer had me as a burden.The kidnappers wanted to continue exploiting my
The police had not made any progress in the case for a long time, so they came to our house.My mother reluctantly brought them to my room.“This is your daughter’s room?” The police stared at the room in shock.My room was right next to the servants’. It was the smallest room with the worst living conditions. It could not even compare to the servants’ quarters.Feeling guilty, my mother said, “She chose it herself.”When I first arrived at my family’s house, I did have a big room, but Naomi often said that I went to her room to demand her to go back to her true family. My parents thought that I needed to be taught a lesson.So, they had me move to a servant’s room.“Can we take this strand of hair?” The police picked up a strand of hair from the pillow.“We have a few more questions. Please ask your other daughter to come down.”Naomi was a little nervous when she saw the police, but she soon composed herself.The police stared at her and asked, “Could you give us the specif
Naomi was stunned before she shook her head.“The autopsy report came out before you came back, which means that Dawn Clark was already dead before you were released. Why did you say she didn’t die?!” demanded the interrogator.Naomi hung her head. After a long while, she said with a whimpering voice, “It’s all Mom’s fault. She told the kidnappers that Dawn was the one who called the police. That’s why they killed her!”She did her best to clear herself from the blame. “It has nothing to do with me. I’ve already told you everything I know.”With the location Naomi provided, the police went to the scene of the crime.The old, abandoned factory was filled with blood. When the forensic scientists arrived, they immediately warded off the place and discovered that my blood was the only blood in the area.They could not believe just how badly I was tortured before I died.When my parents saw my corpse, they finally cried.I stared at my corpse coldly. Not a single inch of my body rem
“Jane?” my mother called out.Jane, the housekeeper, came forward. My mother pointed at the closet and rebuked her, “Is this how you treated my daughter? Why doesn’t she have any proper clothes?”Jane looked at the closet. “You said that we weren’t to give her any new clothes to teach her a lesson.”My mother seemed to have forgotten about it. She only realized what exactly had happened after being in shock for a long time.“I’m such a horrible mother.” My mother held the few articles of clothing I had and wept. “Dawn, you have to get yourself a good mother if you ever get reincarnated. I’ve let you down.”She cried in my room for an entire night. The next day, she went to the police station with swollen, red eyes.She wanted to meet Naomi, but the police stopped her. “Apologies, but Naomi Lewis is a suspect. She took part in the planning of the kidnapping.”“That’s impossible! Naomi is a good girl!”“Calm down, Ma’am. She was indeed in cahoots with the kidnappers to kidnap the
She stared at her mother’s face, which was incredibly similar to her own face. She was disgusted. “Where did these country bumpkins come from?”“I know that you hate me for not being with you over the years, but I had no other choice!“I just wanted you to have a better life!“If not for the fact that I wanted you to live a rich life, I wouldn’t have taken the risk to switch you with that stupid girl!” Naomi’s mother cried.My mind went blank. So, they had always wanted to switch me with Naomi.It was no wonder why Naomi’s parents always hit and yelled at me while they doted on my adopted brother.I had thought that it was because they were misogynistic, but it was really because they knew that I was not their real daughter.In a crazed rage, my mother charged over and started hitting them while yelling, “You’re the ones who stole my daughter for eighteen years!“You brat! Even if you die, you still won’t make up for what you did!”She started fighting against Naomi’s parents,