My Boyfriend Drained My Blood to Please His Stepsister novel Chapter 6

"Yeah, my sister is dead."

They had always used her life to control me.

But now she was gone.

I looked at Zane, my eyes colder than they had ever been.

"Then why don’t you throw my ashes in with hers while you’re at it?"

I reached into my purse and pulled out the vial of pills.

Right there, in front of everyone, I swallowed them.

Zane’s face drained of color. He lunged, grabbing my shoulders, shaking me violently.

"What the hell did you take?!"

I smiled weakly.

"Poison. Are you happy now?"

"Chloe, you’re insane!"

Zane roared, his eyes bloodshot, his usually emotionless face finally cracking.

I shoved his hands away. My body felt light, like all the strength had drained out of me.

I collapsed.

"Chloe! You don’t get to die without my permission!"

His voice was raw, shaking as he caught me in his arms.

As my consciousness faded, I saw Zane’s bloodshot eyes.

And Lily’s triumphant smile.

Zane drove like a madman to the hospital.

The doctors said the poison was unknown, that they had done everything they could.

Zane could only watch as my vitals slowly flatlined.

Holding me in his arms, his body trembled violently as he kept calling my name.

"Chloe, wake up! I won’t let you die!"

"You want a divorce? Fine! Just wake up, and I’ll give you anything you want!"

"Chloe, I’m begging you… I was wrong…"

At my funeral, Zane wore black.

His face was pale, his bloodshot eyes hollow.

He looked like a man who had lost his soul.

Lily clung to his arm, whispering softly.

"Zane, she’s gone. You have to move on."

Zane didn’t respond.

He just stared at my photo.

In it, I was smiling-softly, warmly.

That girl felt like a stranger now.

Even to me.

Once, I used to smile like that.

Then the scientists from the lab arrived.

They brought a journal.

"This belonged to Ms. Chloe. She asked us to give it to Mr. Parker if anything happened to her."

Zane’s hands shook as he took it, flipping through the pages.

"Zane was trapped in the fire at the lab. I couldn’t let anything happen to him…"

"Today, Lily stole the bracelet Mom left me. I miss Mom so much…"

"I gave Zane my kidney. I just want him to get better…"

"His illness is still serious. The Parker family wants a lucky marriage to save him."

"Lily refused, so they made me marry him instead…"

"I’m pregnant. I can’t wait to meet our baby."

"I don’t care if it’s a boy or a girl, as long as Zane is happy…"

"My sister is dead… I’m so tired… I just want to be free…"

Zane’s face turned ghostly white.

At the end of the journal, there was an old, faded photo.

In it, I was wearing my mother’s bracelet, grinning brightly.

Zane clutched his chest, his breath coming in ragged gasps, his heart seizing with unbearable pain.

For the first time, he understood.

He had been wrong all along.

I was the one who had saved him.

I was the one he had always loved.

But for Lily, he forced me to give blood, killed my child, and humiliated me over and over again.

Even my sister’s death… was because of him.

He treated his enemy like a savior and the woman who loved him like an enemy.

He pushed away the only person who ever truly cared for him-right into her grave.

"No! That’s not true!"

A loud crash.

The urn shattered.

Ashes spilled everywhere.

Zane froze.

His whole body went rigid as he stared at the mess on the ground.

"No… Chloe…"

His hands trembled as he reached down, trying to gather the ashes.

But they had already mixed into the dirt.

They were no longer separate.

"Aaaahhh-!"

A blood-curdling scream tore from his throat.

Then, he slowly turned to Lily, his eyes burning with murderous rage.

"Z-Zane… I… I didn’t mean to-"

SMACK!

Before she could finish, Zane’s palm connected with her cheek, sending her reeling.

Then, without hesitation, he kicked her. Hard.

CRACK.

Her rib snapped.

She let out a shriek like a dying animal.

Zane didn’t stop.

His fingers wrapped around her throat, squeezing tight.

"Lily, I will make you pay for everything Chloe suffered."

Lily, barely conscious, was dragged away like a discarded ragdoll.

Zane turned his grief into fury, launching a relentless investigation into everything in that journal.

And he found the truth.

Lily had lied. About everything.

She stole the credit for my sacrifices.

She took everything that should have been mine.

My father never cared. My stepmother and Lily tormented me for years.

I endured it all, just to pay for my sister’s medical bills.