All Chapters of No Peace in Life or Death: Chapter 11 - Chapter 14

Jo was livid when she heard this.She grabbed my mom by the hair and slapped her hard across the face. “Repayment? Hasn’t she already paid enough?“Emily told me you handed her over to Steve. That should have been the end of it.“And now you’re here, trying to guilt-trip her with this ‘debt’? Who do you think you’re fooling?”My mom was stunned and stammered, “Lily…”But Jo didn’t let her finish and slapped her again. “If you dare to bother Emily again, I swear I’ll knock your teeth out!”After a few more slaps, my mom’s face was red and swollen, and she couldn’t get another word out.Jo then shoved her out the door and added a few more words to the sign: “No entry for Chris Carter or the three dogs of the York family!”I couldn’t help but laugh, but it turned into a coughing fit.Jo gently rubbed my back and said with a distant look, “Emily, you really are my little Emily.”……Before I was three, I lived in an orphanage, and there was an older girl who always took care of m

Mr. York glared at me with fury in his eyes, but I didn’t back down.“Luckily, I found that spiritual advisor. He told me you had to raise that girl until she was twenty because you were destined to be childless, and she was meant to have a sister.“When I told him that the girl you adopted from the orphanage had died, do you know what he said?”For the first time, Emily’s parents looked worried.“He said, ‘Then you’re finished.’”Emily didn’t just bring the York family a daughter. She brought wealth and good as well. But they threw it all away when they lost her.I blew out a ring of smoke, remembering the day I met the spiritual advisor. He had looked at me with pity.He told me I had a soulmate, someone I was destined to be with, but our connection had been broken.My destiny had been altered drastically, and he warned me to take care.Lily’s photos were plastered all over town, and she lost her mind. She jumped off a rooftop.Emily’s parents couldn’t handle the shock. The