All Chapters of The Cuckoo's Egg: Chapter 1 - Chapter 9

Roaring flames lit up the bedroom, sending waves of heat and smoke that choked me to tears. "Sweetheart, stay there and don't move!"Hearing the voice message my husband sent me, I finally realized that I was reborn.My husband's name was Joey Pierce, and he was the captain of the local firefighters. In my past life, I trusted him completely, not moving a single muscle even when my flesh was burning while waiting for him to come in and save me.It was only after my death that I found out that he had intentionally told me to stay there, where the flames were the most severe. With his logic, the more pain I went through, the more it'd be deserving of him 'saving my life'!Thinking back to how I was discriminated against after being disfigured in the fire, I immediately doused a blanket with water and dashed out of the room, covering my nose and mouth."Nina?"I had only just arrived at the living room when I came right upon my husband, wearing a firefighter's uniform. Without a s

Winnie's plan was as clear as day. She wanted to make me go away so that she could transfer Joey's body in secret, thus avoiding the people from the donation center. My reaction, evidently, made her completely lose any semblance of composure."Nina!" She screamed at the top of her lungs. "You're just trying to buy time until Joey's sperm becomes inactive!""How dare you?!" Tony glared at me, before raising his hand in a full arch and slapping my face, making it numb immediately."You have no other choice!" He said through gritted teeth, and it almost looked like he was trying to kill me with his glare alone. "If you didn't set your house on fire to attract Joey's attention, he wouldn't have died! You owe this to him, and you will never be able to repay him even if you spend the rest of your life trying!""I… set my house on fire…?" I was dumbstruck, and it only seemed to make him even angrier. "Don't even try to say you didn't, because I have proof!"After he said it, he thr

A full shiver racked Winnie's frame, and she stared at me fearfully for a moment before she suddenly shrieked at the top of her lungs while holding her head, attracting everyone's attention."Quick, sedate her!" She ordered frantically. "She's hallucinating because of the fire, so we can't believe what she says! She's gone mad!"No one moved in response, only looking at her with puzzled expressions. Clearly, she seemed like the one who'd gone mad instead of me. Seeing this, Winnie became even more hysterical. "I'm a doctor! Aren't you going to believe me?"The police looked at each other worriedly, before looking back at me. "Miss Carson, I'm afraid we can't brush aside the possibility that you're mentally compromised, so can you please come back with us to the police station?" Winnie breathed a sigh of relief at his words, but I continued gripping onto Joey's bed with a death grip. "I'm not going anywhere until the donation center arrives."My mother-in-law's expression darken

As the three of them kept on blabbering endlessly, I quietly backed up and saved the audio I had recorded of them.In the days that followed, an endless amount of people came to pay their respects at the wake, and there was no chance for someone else to swap in to take Joey’s place. In the end, he could do nothing but lie in the coffin and hold on for dear life.His condition worsened by the day, and by the time the three-day wake period had passed, he was basically a one step away from actually dying. My mother-in-law simply couldn’t bear to watch it any longer. "That’s enough, we’re leaving with him right this second!"She’d already made preparations to smuggle Joey abroad over the night so that he could finally live his carefree life, but how could I let them have their way?"Mom, there's no need to be in such a rush." I said, pointing behind her, where an elderly professor wearing a white coat walked in with a group of medical students, bowing and presenting flowers to Joey.

Joey couldn't even muster a single response, only repeating again and again for the journalists to get lost. As the news of his fake death spread from the live broadcast, the citizens who had specially mourned his passing felt like they had been force-fed a pile of cow dung. Naturally, the ones who had the worst reactions were the firefighters. They were the ones who had mourned his passing the most, yet they had no idea they were just jokes from beginning to end. From the very beginning, the fire had been caused by Joey, who wanted to pin the blame on me.Soon enough, Tony arrived with the other firefighters. "Cap…" His voice was hoarse. "No, you don't have the right to be our captain! You're nothing but a monster!"The firefighters, blind with rage, rushed towards Joey and surrounded him, beating him onto the ground over and over again. The onlookers half-heartedly tried to stop them, and it wasn't until Joey was nearly beaten dead that he was pulled out of the circle.Tony