A mysterious bargain changes everything when a young woman sacrifices her heart for the chance to live again. Reborn with memories of her tragic past, she must face destiny once more, uncover hidden truths, and decide whether love is worth risking everything a second time. As time, fate, and forgotten promises collide, every choice brings her closer to redemption—or another heartbreaking loss.
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00:00The third month, my family's kept me locked in the psych ward.
00:03Electrodes on my temples.
00:05Restraints cutting into my wrists.
00:07I'd lost count of how many shocks the doctor had given me.
00:10Please! Please! No, it's hurt!
00:12I'll be good!
00:14I promise! Stop!
00:16I struggled, I begged, but the doctor didn't even look up.
00:19The nurse pushed the door open, expressionless.
00:22I watched her white shoes come closer.
00:24Her family says, up the dose.
00:26The current hit.
00:28My body arched, then went limp.
00:30The last thing I saw was the white fluorescent light
00:32and the little red dot on the security camera blinking on and off.
00:36The line on the heart monitor went flat.
00:38I died.
00:39When I opened my eyes, I was standing in an old pawn shop.
00:42I looked down at my hands.
00:44Translucent.
00:45Welcome.
00:46A voice.
00:47Behind the counter, I looked up.
00:49A man, 30 maybe.
00:50His eyes were pale gray like glass with no heat in it.
00:54The soul shop.
00:55The place where you get what you want most.
00:58He looked up at me.
01:00And what do you want?
01:02What do I want?
01:04I mumbled and clenched my fists.
01:06My nails dug into my palms, but I couldn't feel the pain anymore.
01:10I want to live again.
01:13He set the cloth down.
01:14It won't be cheap.
01:16Pulled out a sheet of parchment from beneath the counter,
01:18slid it across to me.
01:20To live again, you trade something of equal value.
01:24Do you know what's worth the most about you?
01:27No.
01:28Your ability to love.
01:30I froze.
01:32He looked at me with those pale gray eyes, voice slow.
01:35You see, people like you are rare.
01:38You loved your parents, loved your brother, loved your fiance.
01:42You even loved the sister who took everything from you, stepped on, spit on, and you kept
01:47handing them your heart over and over.
01:49You're mocking me!
01:52I'm doing business.
01:54He tapped the parchment with one fingertip.
01:56Terms.
01:56You surrender your ability to love.
01:58I give you one more life.
02:00Starting the day you turned 12.
02:02The day they brought your sister home.
02:04Why that day?
02:05For the first time, something flickered in his face, almost interest.
02:08Because that's where your story went wrong.
02:10I was quiet for a long time.
02:13Then I looked up.
02:15Deal.
02:16I lifted my hand, pressed it to the parchment.
02:18A gold light bloomed where my fingerprint landed.
02:20He took the contract back, gave me the smallest nod.
02:23I snapped.
02:24May this life find yourself.
02:27He snapped his fingers.
02:28The world began to fall apart.
02:31Shards of light drifted down like snow.
02:33White light swallowed everything.
02:36Anya, what are you spacing out for?
02:38Our new sister's almost here.
02:39Let's go down and meet her.
02:41Hearing that name again froze me for a second.
02:43My eyes snapped open.
02:45I hadn't been called Anya in six, seven years.
02:47I turned and looked at my twin brother, Cole, next to me.
02:51Sure enough, he'd reverted to his 12-year-old self.
02:54A half-grown boy in a perfectly tailored suit, eyes bright with anticipation.
02:58One of his hands was holding my hand.
03:00I looked down at his slim, clean fingers.
03:02In my head, I saw the handprint it had left on my face when we were older.
03:06I frowned, yanked my arm free.
03:09Cole looked at me, confused.
03:10Anya, what's wrong?
03:12The front door opened.
03:13My parents' voices floated up.
03:16Cole!
03:16Anya, come down!
03:17We've brought your sister home!
03:20Cole's eyes lit up.
03:21He dropped me and ran down the stairs alone.
03:23I stood at the top and watched the four of them downstairs.
03:26One big happy family.
03:28I pressed a hand to my chest.
03:30Strange.
03:32My heart was still beating, calmly.
03:34But the knife-edge pain as before, it was totally gone.
03:37Cole and I are twins.
03:38For the first 12 years of our lives, my parents only had the two of us.
03:42Cole was older by two hours.
03:43He and our parents spoiled me into a real deal little princess.
03:47Someone joked to my father once.
03:49With a temper like your daughter's, thank God she's engaged to Felix already,
03:53or no one would dare marry her.
03:55My father's face went black.
03:57My daughter wasn't born to be married off.
03:59She can stay home for life.
04:01I can afford her.
04:03My mother and Cole didn't say a word.
04:05They just kept showering me with more nice things.
04:07A $3 million bracelet was an ordinary birthday gift back then.
04:11But it was also the last birthday gift I would ever get.
04:14The year I turned 12, an old friend of my father's died of illness.
04:18On his deathbed, he asked my father to take in his only daughter, Olivia.
04:22And after her coming, my family's love, trust, attention, all of it,
04:26drifted away from me a little at a time.
04:28But I still treated her like my own sister before my 18th birthday.
04:31I loved her until the moment I saw her kissing my fiancé Felix in the garden.
04:39I snapped.
04:40Why are you doing this to me?
04:43Do you even see what you're like right now?
04:45You're a lunaturk.
04:47Cole's eyes were full of revulsion.
04:49My parents said nothing.
04:50They watched, like everyone else.
04:52The pain in my chest had me shaking head to toe.
04:54I went at Olivia with a knife,
04:56but Cole kicked me into a thicket of thorns.
04:58Every single person there crowded around Olivia,
05:01trying to calm her down, begging her not to cry.
05:03Nobody cared that what I'd had in my hand
05:05was just a plastic knife from the cake.
05:07My parents had me committed, said I was mentally ill.
05:10Cole kicked and real damage.
05:12I was coughing up blood day and night.
05:14I begged the doctor over and over to call my parents.
05:17Not a single call got answered.
05:19Then, after another round of electroshock, I stopped breathing.
05:22That was when I saw it.
05:24The soul shop.
05:25The one in the rumors.
05:26I traded everything I had to love with for one more chance.
05:29This time, no one gets to hurt me.
05:31Aina!
05:32Sweetheart, come on!
05:33You've been waiting for a little sister, haven't you?
05:35My mother holding Olivia's hand, smiling, waving me down.
05:38Olivia tipped up her clean little face and called me sister.
05:41I didn't react.
05:42I turned and walked back into my room.
05:45Left the four of them looking at each other in the living room.
05:48My father, confused.
05:49What's gotten into her now?
05:51Who upset her?
05:52My mother's voice went thin.
05:54Maybe she just needs a minute to get used to having a younger sister.
05:58It's fine.
05:59I'll go talk to her in a bit.
06:00Olivia's voice cracked.
06:02Mom, Dad, does my sister not like me?
06:06Maybe I should leave.
06:09Before my parents could say anything, Cole jumped in.
06:12Anya's just a little hot-tentured.
06:13Don't be sad.
06:14I'll go tell her off in a minute.
06:16Cole's so grown up.
06:18You take good care of your sister, okay?
06:20Their laughter floated up through the floor.
06:22I stood up and started going through my things.
06:24Too much time had passed.
06:26I couldn't remember everything 12-year-old me owned.
06:28A closer look.
06:29I was almost embarrassingly rich.
06:31No wonder Olivia loved taking my things.
06:33I scooped the jewelry off the vanity and dumped it into my box.
06:36I picked up the bracelet and remembered the time she'd smashed it.
06:40That was the first time I'd slapped Olivia.
06:42She'd hidden behind the door with her eyes red, voice tiny, like I was the one who'd broken her favorite
06:46thing.
06:48Sister, I'm sorry.
06:49I really didn't mean to.
06:51I just wanted to look at it.
06:53It slipped.
06:54Then she'd burst into tears.
06:55My parents came running.
06:57Cole came running.
06:58She had wrapped herself around my mother's leg, sobbing like she was going to pass out.
07:02But the moment no one was watching, she looked up at me and smirked.
07:05I pointed at her, trying to tell them truth.
07:08Anna!
07:08How can you be cruel to her?
07:10It's just a bracelet.
07:11You couldn't have let her have it?
07:13Just a bracelet?
07:15That bracelet was the gift Cole had bought me with the prize money from his first IT competition.
07:20And he'd forgotten.
07:22By the time I'd packed up everything, there was a soft knock on my door.
07:25My mother, voice soft, almost too patient.
07:28Anya?
07:29Sweetheart?
07:29Come out.
07:30Dinner's ready.
07:31I didn't answer.
07:32I just opened the door and let her walk me down to the dining room.
07:35My usual seat had Olivia in it.
07:38My father and Cole were both putting food on her plates.
07:40I turned to my mother.
07:41Should I eat on the floor?
07:43Every head snapped up.
07:45My mother's grip on my hand tightened.
07:48Of course not.
07:49My fault.
07:49I forgot to have them bring you a chair.
07:51Anna, please get Anya a chair.
07:53Olivia stood up, her wide, innocent eyes filling instantly.
07:55Sister, I'm sorry.
07:56I didn't know this was your seat.
07:58Here, take it.
08:00Cole jumped up and pushed her back into the chair, shooting me a hard look.
08:03Anna, it doesn't matter where you sit.
08:05Olivia just got here.
08:07Don't scare her.
08:08My parents said nothing.
08:09They were watching me.
08:10So this was tacit approval.
08:12I took the chair from the housekeeper and dragged it to the far end of the table, away from all
08:16of them.
08:17Cole's hands stalled midair over Olivia's plate.
08:20And he opened his mouth a few times, closed it.
08:22We finished dinner in that strange, frozen quiet.
08:25As I stood up to head back upstairs, my father called after me.
08:28He cleared his throat, tried to smile.
08:30Anya, Olivia just lost her parents.
08:34We're her family now.
08:35We should take care of her.
08:36My mother chimed in.
08:38Yeah, mom knows.
08:39You probably aren't used to having a sister yet.
08:42But look at her.
08:43She's so sweet.
08:45Try to spend time with her.
08:46You'll grow close.
08:47My voice came out flat.
08:49And?
08:49My mother froze.
08:51Maybe I'd never spoken to her in that tone before.
08:54My father took a sip of his coffee and forced a smile.
08:57Anya, sweetheart.
08:58Olivia just transferred to her new school.
09:00She's not doing well.
09:01So how about you and Cole both drop back a grade so you can be in the same class as
09:06your sister?
09:06To sell it, he added quickly.
09:08Cole already said yes.
09:09We're just waiting on you.
09:11I looked at Cole and he was staring at the floor.
09:14Couldn't meet my eyes.
09:16Here we go.
09:17Last time around, it was the same.
09:19They made me and Cole, who were already in 7th grade, drop back to 6th with Olivia.
09:24A year later, my childhood sweetheart Felix, by then thick as thieves with Olivia, transferred
09:29into our class on the excuse that he wanted to look after me.
09:32After that, the three of them put on their little theater every day.
09:35Made up stories about how I was bullying Olivia, got the whole class to freeze me out.
09:39Brilliant.
09:40But I wasn't going to play with elementary schoolers this time.
09:42Waste of a life.
09:44I tilted my head.
09:46She needs two servants just to get through school?
09:49My father slammed his fork down.
09:51Anya, what did you just say?
09:53I said, since Cole's already volunteered to be her servant, you don't need to drag me into it.
09:58My mother grabbed her arm, eyes wide.
10:00Anya, what are you saying?
10:02What servant?
10:03Your dad just wants you all to spend time together.
10:06Get close.
10:07I have no obligation to get close to her.
10:09Whoever wants to wait on her, can wait on her.
10:12I stared at Cole.
10:14He'd been frozen like a deer in headlights this whole time.
10:17It's settled.
10:18The two of you go to elementary school.
10:19I'll stay in 7th grade.
10:21We leave each other alone.
10:22I turned and went upstairs.
10:24Left the four of them downstairs, consoling Olivia, who couldn't stop crying.
10:28Around 9 that night, Cole knocked on my door.
10:31Anya, are you asleep?
10:33What?
10:34Could you open the door?
10:36No.
10:37The hall went quiet.
10:38Just as I thought he'd left, his voice came through again.
10:41Anya, you're upset, aren't you?
10:43No.
10:44You are.
10:45Anya, is it because I only paid attention to our new sister today and ignored you?
10:49I exhaled.
10:49Really?
10:50No.
10:51Cole, you can get close to whoever you want.
10:53I don't care.
10:54The hall went quiet again.
10:55After a long pause, his voice came back.
10:57There was something tired in it.
10:58Anya, Olivia, she's really pitiful.
11:00She's got such a soft heart.
11:02I'm scared she'll get pushed around.
11:03Anya, let me stay with her for a year.
11:05Once she settles in, I'll transfer back to your school, okay?
11:08Right, right, right.
11:10The school is funded by your family.
11:12You can do whatever you want.
11:13I slid my noise-canceling earplugs in, got into bed.
11:16The next morning, I walked into the living room with my suitcase and my backpack.
11:20Everyone froze.
11:24I looked up and saw Felix sitting next to Olivia, my future fiancé, the man who would one day betray
11:29me for Olivia.
11:30At 12, he was already a head taller than Cole.
11:32The moment he saw me, he jumped up, his soft hazel eyes crinkling, voice all bright.
11:37Anya, I'm here to walk you to school.
11:39I looked down, saw Olivia's hand still wrapped around his arm.
11:43You don't need to walk me anywhere.
11:45Ever.
11:46If you want to walk someone else, go ahead.
11:48Why?
11:48I gestured at the suitcase behind me.
11:50Felix wasn't the only one looking lost.
11:52So were my parents.
11:53So was Cole.
11:54Anna?
11:55What's that?
11:56Cole's eyes were red-rimmed.
11:58Clothes.
11:58And some things I need.
12:00And my jewelry.
12:01I won't give them up this time.
12:02Forgot to mention, starting today, I'm leaving here.
12:06What?
12:07What?
12:08What?
12:08All of them at once.
12:11My father came over, cold-faced, and crouched down to look at me.
12:14Anya, why?
12:16Is home not good enough?
12:18Where do you even want to go?
12:20Boarding school.
12:20I set it flat.
12:21His hand on my hair was shaking a little, and he glanced back at Olivia, hesitant.
12:25Is it because, because of Olivia?
12:27Before I could react, Olivia bit her lip and let out a soft, choked sob.
12:30What are you saying?
12:31Of course not.
12:33Anya, you tell us yourself.
12:34Why are you boarding at school?
12:35It can't be because of your sister.
12:37You love her, don't you?
12:38Every face in the room was waiting, hopeful.
12:40They wanted me to say yes.
12:42I love her.
12:42I want to board because I'm being a brat.
12:44But I make it my job to disappoint people.
12:46No, I don't love her.
12:48I hate her.
12:49And it's not just her.
12:50I hate every single one of you.
12:52Their faces went bone white.
12:53Only Felix didn't really react.
12:54He looked like he thought I was throwing a jealous fit.
12:56His face was full of patience and rye indulgence.
12:58When I dragged my suitcase past him, he even reached out to help me carry it.
13:02I dodged.
13:02He didn't get angry, just kept trailing me.
13:04My parents tried to come after me, but Olivia's sobbing cut them off.
13:08Mom.
13:09Dad.
13:11Send me to an orphan.
13:12I don't deserve to be here.
13:15Of course, more cooing, more comfort.
13:16The only odd thing was that Cole, for the first time, didn't say a word.
13:20Felix was still on my heels and climbed straight into my car.
13:23Get in your own car.
13:24No, I'm not going.
13:25I'm coming with you.
13:26My fingertips twitched.
13:28Last life around, the same.
13:29When everyone else turned on me, the only one who didn't take Olivia's side was Felix.
13:33He'd stand behind me when she set me up.
13:35He'd snap back at Cole when Cole yelled at me.
13:37When my parents got more and more disappointed in me, he'd hold me and say softly,
13:40Anya.
13:41Don't be scared.
13:43You've got me.
13:44I'll always just love you.
13:46I'd clung to him like a drowning person clings to a piece of wood until our 14th birthday.
13:50Olivia collapsed out of nowhere.
13:51Felix, faster than anyone, shoved me out of the way and caught her.
13:54A fake medium he'd personally brought immediately took the chance and announced my name was bad luck
13:58and it was crushing Olivia's fortune.
14:00What a flimsy escape.
14:01I still remember the shock and embarrassment on every guest's face that night.
14:05Every adult in the room could see it for what it was.
14:07A staged public humiliation.
14:09But my parents took me to get my name legally changed without a single argument.
14:13From that day forward, the name I'd had for 14 years, Anya, became a banned word in our house
14:17since they called me Mia.
14:18Mia.
14:18A name picked to protect Olivia.
14:20I hated it.
14:21I hated it until the day I died.
14:24I didn't answer Felix if he'd be transferring to Olivia's class in a few weeks anyway.
14:27I took my paperwork and my boarding fee straight to the dorm supervisor.
14:31When Felix saw me actually hand the money over, the casual look fell off his face.
14:35He finally got it.
14:36I wasn't joking around.
14:37Anya?
14:37Confusion was thick in his eyes.
14:40Why do you hate me too?
14:41What did I do wrong?
14:42His fingers caught at my sleeve carefully and I slapped his hand off hard, disgust all over
14:46my face, wiped at my sleeve with a tissue, his voice caught in his throat.
14:50Anya.
14:50I walked off down the hallway to the head's office.
14:52Before first period started, I requested a transfer to a new class.
14:56When I came around the corner with an armful of books, I saw Felix again.
14:59Eyes red.
15:01He looked at the books in my arms and his face crumpled.
15:04Anya.
15:05Don't transfer.
15:06Please.
15:07In that exact moment, a basketball came flying out of room 7B and clocked him square in the
15:11head.
15:12I dodged with the books and slipped into the classroom.
15:14Felix went down the hallway, paused to stir.
15:16A boy in the classroom was still in his shooting follow-through.
15:19His uniform hung loose on him.
15:21His mouth was stretched into an exaggerated.
15:23Whoa.
15:23Sorry.
15:24Didn't mean to hit anyone.
15:25You good, man?
15:25I glanced at him, walked past with my books.
15:27I might have been imagining it, but his arm went stiff for a second.
15:30Then he leaned on a desk with one hand and pointed casually at the seat next to him, voice
15:34all swagger.
15:35Past that is the trash can.
15:38Maybe sit next to me?
15:41I looked at him.
15:42He looked away fast.
15:44Uh, the teacher said a new student was coming, told the class principal, me, to look out for
15:50her.
15:50He rubbed his face, rubbed it so hard his ears went red.
15:53Class president of 7B, Jace, the certified troublemaker.
15:56The kids around me were either laughing at Felix on the floor or sneaking looks at us.
16:00I sighed.
16:017B's bad reputation was earned.
16:03I pressed my lips together.
16:06Thanks.
16:06I prefer to sit alone.
16:08I put my books down at the desk at the very back, against the wall.
16:11Jace looked annoyed at himself.
16:13His voice got urgent.
16:14Hey, you!
16:15Don't sit there.
16:15Trade with me.
16:16I'm taller.
16:17I'll block your view of the board.
16:18Before I could say no, Felix burst in, face streaked with dust, slammed his hands on my books.
16:23Anya, come back with me.
16:27Let go.
16:28No.
16:30Bro, are you done with the drama?
16:32Jace looked at him like he was something stuck to his shoe.
16:34She wants to be in our class.
16:36Who asked you?
16:37Someone from the doorway tossed Jace another ball.
16:39He balanced it on one finger, spinning, and gave Felix a look that was pure dare.
16:43Felix ground his teeth, looked down at me, and I was already organizing my desk.
16:46Get out.
16:47The bell rang.
16:48Felix's hand clenched.
16:50Anya.
16:51I didn't answer.
16:51He gave up, shot Jace a venomous look, walked out, and I assailed.
16:59Thanks.
17:00Wait.
17:00You talking to me?
17:01I nodded.
17:02He suddenly stood up straight as a board and chucked the basketball at the trash can behind me.
17:06I stared.
17:07Didn't know what just happened.
17:08His face went redder.
17:09Reflex.
17:10Don't, don't mention it.
17:11I caught myself smiling.
17:12He went even stiffer.
17:14Jace ended up trading seats with me anyway.
17:17I told him over and over.
17:18It was winter.
17:19The trash got emptied off in.
17:20There was no smell.
17:21But he was firm.
17:22He moved me up to the front.
17:23You're obviously a neat freak.
17:24And a good student.
17:26No way I'm letting you sit back there.
17:27Like, he decided to be the world's most committed class president.
17:30He handled every detail of my class transfer.
17:32So when the teacher pulled us aside and asked if I could help bring his grades up, I hesitated,
17:36then nodded.
17:37School life was dry but full.
17:39To stay away from home, I signed up for every tutoring program I could find on weekends.
17:43Summer and winter breaks, I packed myself off to camps abroad.
17:45School work aside, I was starting to look outward.
17:48See the world.
17:49At first, my parents came to school every few days.
17:51Then, since I always looked at them blankly, they stopped coming.
17:53Every so often, there was a phone call.
17:55They'd sigh into the phone.
17:57Anya, we just want you girls to get along.
18:01Olivia really misses you?
18:02You're not coming home this weekend?
18:04No.
18:05I didn't say much.
18:06Conversations got awkward fat.
18:08I'd just hang up.
18:08They said I'm weird and unlikable now.
18:10They were right.
18:11I didn't have the ability to be adorable.
18:12But my brother Cole came every day.
18:14Without fail, he carried meals from home, running between the elementary school and the middle school.
18:19Sometimes Olivia trailed after him out of breath.
18:21She looked at me like I was the villain.
18:23Sister, our brother is killing himself doing this.
18:26Just be nice and come to our class.
18:28I took the meal box from Cole and sat down to eat.
18:30Olivia bit her lip, eyes wet, looked at Cole.
18:32He wiped sweat off his forehead and gave her a generous big brother smile.
18:36It's nothing.
18:36Anya, the school food's terrible.
18:39I'll bring you home cooking every day.
18:40I ignored him.
18:41He didn't get angry.
18:42When I finished eating, he'd take the empty container and run back to elementary school.
18:45Felix came less and less.
18:47He stopped pushing me to engage with him.
18:48He just spent every break standing by the window, glancing over at me like he wasn't.
18:52I pretended I couldn't see.
18:55The days went by.
18:56The day before my 14th birthday.
18:58My parents showed up at the school.
18:59Unusually, Cole was with them.
19:01When they saw me, both of them did a little double take.
19:03My mother's hands shook a bit as she grabbed my arm.
19:05You've gotten taller again.
19:07Sweetheart, it's been so long since you came home.
19:10Her eyes went pink and set off my father's, too.
19:12There was a catch in his voice.
19:14Yeah, Anya.
19:16Your birthday is tomorrow.
19:17We've got everything set up.
19:18Come home, okay?
19:19Like he was scared, I'd refuse.
19:20Cole added quickly.
19:21You can invite your friends.
19:23Classmates, you didn't come home last year.
19:25We waited up the whole night.
19:27Right.
19:27On my birthday last year, Jace had found out somehow.
19:30He dragged the whole goofy crew from class and announced we were going horseback riding.
19:35Anya, can you, like, open up a little?
19:38I looked at him, lost.
19:39He pulled at the corners of his own mouth with two fingers.
19:42It's your birthday.
19:43Quit being all uptight.
19:45Smile.
19:46He was sitting up on a tall chestnut horse.
19:48Happy birthday.
19:48The sun behind him, head tilted to look at me.
19:50Thanks.
19:54I sat up on the horse, wind in my ears, felt something inside me that had been locked tight.
19:59Easy.
20:00It wasn't until the next day that I saw all the missed calls from my family.
20:04And the pile of birthday gifts Cole had brought to the front of my classroom.
20:09I was surprised.
20:10Last time, my 12th birthday was the last time I got a gift.
20:14Anya, come home tomorrow.
20:15Cole kept going, but when I turned, I saw Olivia holding onto Felix's arm.
20:19That memorable naming ceremony night, the nausea was still in me.
20:23I frowned without meaning to.
20:24Felix yanked his arm out of her hand fast.
20:27I've been looking for you.
20:28Olivia said you were here.
20:29She brought me.
20:31I just...
20:31You don't have to explain.
20:32I cut him off.
20:33I'm busy tomorrow.
20:34I'm not coming home.
20:36Anya.
20:37I turned and went back into the classroom.
20:40Behind me, my mother have started crying.
20:42As I turned the corner, I heard a heavy sigh.
20:45Honey, did we...
20:47We do this wrong?
20:50But I don't care about them anymore.
20:52Right now, I had a butter knife in my hand, and I was carefully cutting into a cake that
20:55said, happy birthday, Anya.
20:57The class turned off the lights, and the warm wash of candlelight, everyone sang.
21:01Anya, make a wish.
21:03I closed my eyes for a second.
21:05Wished.
21:05With my whole soul.
21:06Please, whoever's listening.
21:07Keep me far away from those people this lifetime.
21:09When I opened my eyes, Jace was standing in front of me with a small, wrapped box.
21:13Anya, happy birthday.
21:15Open it.
21:15I smiled and opened it.
21:17Froze.
21:18A hair clip studded with crystals.
21:19What?
21:20You don't like it?
21:20Should have asked you first.
21:21He scratched at his head, frustrated.
21:23The other day, I saw you staring at a hair clip on the sidewalk.
21:25That one was cheap, so I found a better one.
21:27I love it.
21:29He froze.
21:30I picked up the clip and put it in my hair.
21:35His eyes had that soft, littering thing happening.
21:37No problem.
21:38As long as you like it, it's really pretty.
21:40It was.
21:41Very pretty.
21:41A piece by the international designer, Victor, from his Starlight Collection.
21:45When I was 17, I'd seen it at an auction and fallen in love with it.
21:48I thought my mother would love it, too.
21:50I'd brought five years of saved up money.
21:52Started bidding.
21:53But that day, no matter what I bid, Olivia bid a dollar higher.
21:57In the end, my mother stepped in and bought the piece for $30 million.
22:02Absurd price.
22:03And she put it in Olivia's hair.
22:04They said,
22:05You have everything.
22:06Why fight a little girl over this?
22:08Olivia wore it in front of me every single day, showing off.
22:10Mia, it's the gift from Mom, but I can give it to you if you beg me.
22:15That hair clip became one of my obsessions.
22:17And here it was in my palm, three years earlier than it should have been.
22:21My eyes filled before I knew it.
22:24All of you.
22:25Really.
22:26It was strange.
22:26The heart I'd thought was dead started slowly to beat again.
22:32After that day, my family started bothering me less.
22:35Even Cole and Felix, the daily fixtures, disappeared for a long stretch.
22:39It took the class gossip queen to fill me in.
22:42Olivia got crazy.
22:44She couldn't bear my parents or Cole, leaving her side for a second.
22:47I heard your mom mention sending her to a school abroad, and she snapped.
22:51Like, totally.
22:52Word is, she's even tried to hurt herself.
22:54She wanted to recover at home, but she won't let Cole come to school either.
22:56Whole family has to camp at home with her.
22:58Felix, too.
22:59She won't let go of him.
22:59His family's having a huge fight with yours about it.
23:01I gripped my pen tighter.
23:03This was exactly what I'd done in my last life.
23:05The more they ignored you, the harder you reached for attention.
23:08Tantrums, screaming, all of it.
23:09Like a lunatic, except she was luckier than I'd been.
23:12Her family was patient with her, and I was relieved.
23:15Not that any of it was my problem, and with no one bothering me, I dragged the whole class
23:18into intense study mode.
23:20If someone slacked, Jace intimidated them.
23:23Six months later, we all got into the best high school in the city.
23:26I didn't go home once that summer.
23:27I went up Mount Kazbek with Jace's family.
23:29Turns out his parents were professional climbers.
23:31They'd originally planned to summit Mont Blanc, but you had to be 16 to climb Mont Blanc.
23:36Jace and I were both too young.
23:37Anya, hot tea.
23:39Jace's mother had a soft spot for me from day one.
23:41The gorgeous woman with sharp eyes would pull me into a hug and refuse to let go.
23:46Anya, you're so cute, so pretty.
23:48I'm in love.
23:49Be my daughter.
23:50Did it finally.
23:50Honestly, why is my kid a son?
23:52Doesn't make sense.
23:52Mom, please, be reasonable.
23:54Why is your kid a son?
23:55Because you don't have a daughter.
23:56His father's laugh thundered.
23:58The whole summit echoed with it.
24:00I caught my breath and looked out at the white world below.
24:03Jace shook out a blanket and wrapped it around my shoulders.
24:05I turned and saw his parents huddled together, grinning at us like idiots.
24:09But the moment we looked back, they snapped their heads away.
24:12Beautiful mountain.
24:13Beautiful snow.
24:16Beautiful young time.
24:18Jace's face was red and I couldn't help it.
24:20The corner of my mouth turned up.
24:24I didn't enroll in the private high school my family owned shares in.
24:27Cole lost it and he left Olivia, who was getting sicker by the day, and skipped a grade so he
24:31could be a high school freshman with me.
24:35Felix fought his own family.
24:37His mother locked him in his room.
24:38And that ridiculous engagement I'd already brushed off as a joke before summer break.
24:42Mrs. Adler, please, keep an eye on your son.
24:45Don't let him keep chasing me.
24:46I told his mother without mercy.
24:48I told the school in advance to turn away outside visitors.
24:51So in three years, I saw them maybe four or five times total.
24:54The day after the SAT, my parents, who I hadn't seen in forever, ambushed me at the school gate.
25:00I didn't get out fast enough.
25:01I don't know how, but the two of them looked like they'd aged ten years.
25:05My mother walked toward me with this pleading smile.
25:08I stepped back without thinking.
25:10She froze, then covered her mouth and crumpled into my father's chest, sobbing.
25:14He started crying too.
25:16Anya, mom missed you so much.
25:19Let me hug you, please.
25:21I frowned without meaning to.
25:22Who do you miss?
25:23Who do you want to hug?
25:25Me?
25:25You already have a son and a daughter.
25:27Smart son who adores his sister.
25:28Sweet, well-behaved daughter who respects her parents.
25:31Why would you miss me?
25:33My mother's sobs stopped cold.
25:35She looked up at me, panic on her face.
25:37She started shaking.
25:40No, that's not real.
25:42That was a dream.
25:43That wasn't real.
25:43She kept shaking her head, mumbling to herself.
25:46My father grabbed her, alarmed.
25:51Anya, what did you do to your mother?
25:52I'm a full meter away from her.
25:54I haven't laid a finger on her, Mr. Linster.
25:56What did you just call me?
25:57Mr. Linster?
25:58Anya, are you losing your mind?
26:00Your mother and I came all the way here for you, and this is how you-
26:02I thought my attitude was fine.
26:04Way better than how they'd treated me in my last life.
26:07I shrugged, stepped back.
26:08See you.
26:09Stop right there!
26:11He reached for my arm.
26:12I dodged.
26:15What, you want to hit me, Mr. Linchewski?
26:17I think we've spoiled you rotten.
26:19You need a lesson.
26:21His hand came up.
26:22My mother let out a scream that tore out of her chest.
26:25No!
26:26Don't hit her!
26:27She grabbed his arm, sobbing so hard her legs gave out and ended up on the ground.
26:31That's why she hates me so much.
26:34She covered her face with her hands and laughed and cried into the pavement.
26:37I turned to leave, and behind me, Jace's mother yelled joyfully,
26:40Sweetheart, over here!
26:42She and Jace's father were each holding a bouquet, waving at me hard.
26:46Jace also stood beside them.
26:48I went up on my toes and yelled back,
26:50Auntie!
26:50I ran to her.
26:52She tossed her flowers at Jace and grabbed me and spun me in a full circle.
26:56Feels better now that it's over, right?
26:57Take a few days.
26:58Then we mont blanc.
26:59Here we come.
27:00Um, yes.
27:01Jace took my bag.
27:02His dad pressed an ice cream into my hand.
27:04The four of us walked off together, laughing, and behind us, two figures stood frozen,
27:08getting smaller and smaller in the distance.
27:11The day we flew to France, Jace's dad was driving,
27:14his mom was in the passenger seat humming, and both of them lit up.
27:18Jace and I, on the other hand, hit the back seats and were out cold.
27:22I figured we'd sleep all the way to the airport,
27:24and then his dad slammed on the brakes and our heads cracked into the seat back.
27:28When I opened my eyes, a dark figure had launched in front of the car.
27:32If his dad's brakes hadn't been fast, the guy would have gone flying.
27:37Insurance scam?
27:38We piled out, but the man on his knees in front of the car was cold.
27:41I hadn't seen him in a year.
27:43The sight of him was a shock.
27:44He was so thin, painfully thin.
27:47Middle of summer, and he was bundled head to toe in heavy clothing,
27:49and his exposed face was covered in marks.
27:52Like claw marks, fingernails, old ones layered with new.
27:56A handsome face, basically ruined.
27:58I jumped.
27:59Jace and his dad immediately stepped in front of me and his mom.
28:02You sick, man?
28:03You wanna play in traffic?
28:04Jace went full volume, and I gave him a quiet thumbs up.
28:07He winked.
28:08Cole snapped like a stray dog gone feral.
28:10He slammed past Jace and threw himself at me,
28:12and his whole body was shaking, his red raw eyes pouring tears.
28:15Please forgive us.
28:16Come home and see mom.
28:17She's dying.
28:18I'm begging you.
28:18He was strong out of his mind.
28:20Both Jace's parents together couldn't pull him off me.
28:23Jace lost it.
28:24He grabbed a tire iron out of the trunk and went to swing it at Cole's head.
28:28Jake, don't!
28:30I yanked Cole down with me toward the curb.
28:32Jace, drop it.
28:33Honey.
28:34His mother and I shouted at the same time, and it finally pulled him back.
28:37The tire iron fell, cracked the pavement.
28:40Was he insane?
28:41You go to prison for killing someone?
28:44I looked at Jace, heart still hammering.
28:46He was more shaken than I was, jaw locked, veins standing out in his neck.
28:50Something flickered.
28:51I felt like I'd seen this exact moment before, and I shook my head.
28:55Sweat ran down off my hairline, and I gave in, looked at Cole.
29:00I'll go with you.
29:01Let go.
29:02You're hurting me.
29:03Jace and his parents worried about me, so they drove me and Cole home.
29:07Cole was not okay.
29:08He huddled against the car window, shaking, mumbling, garbled stuff.
29:12He turned to Jace.
29:15I've seen you before.
29:16It was you.
29:17It was you!
29:19I looked at Jace.
29:20His face was cold, blank.
29:21He also didn't look like himself.
29:23My heart skipped.
29:25I grabbed his arm.
29:26Jace?
29:26A grin appeared on his mouth.
29:28Your humble servant?
29:29At your command, my lady.
29:30Okay.
29:31Not body snatched.
29:32That weird.
29:34Definitely him.
29:34But Cole was looking at us with more horror now.
29:37He shrank further into the window.
29:39Already thin next to Jace's broader build, he looked like a ghost.
29:42I felt uneasy.
29:43So I took Jace's hand, and before I could say anything, his face flushed all the way to
29:46his ears.
29:47Idiot.
29:49Back at the Lindquist house, I didn't know where to look first.
29:52The front door, painted over with vicious letters in red, die slow.
29:56Whole family burn.
29:58Hypocrites.
29:59I stepped around the paint, pushed the half-open door.
30:01The living room came into view.
30:02Tables smashed.
30:04Chairs broken.
30:05Couch.
30:05Scorched.
30:06The spiral staircase had bloody clothes scattered all the way up.
30:09I covered my mouth, came close to throwing up.
30:11Jace's mom was furious and scared at the same time.
30:13She wanted to take me right back out, but Jace, for once, stopped her.
30:16Mom, this needs an ending.
30:20This is Anya's call.
30:22Let her decide.
30:23I made a fist, looked at Cole, who'd been silent since we walked in.
30:26You dragged me here and now you've gone mute?
30:28Where are your parents?
30:29Where's your sister?
30:31His body swayed, his chapped lips trembled.
30:33Dad's in the ER.
30:35Mom's in her room.
30:36Olivius is in a psych ward.
30:37My chest tightened.
30:38You lied to me.
30:40You said everyone was home.
30:41You said mom was just sick.
30:43It's not just my mom.
30:44She's our mom, Anaya.
30:45She's not.
30:46I was breathing wrong.
30:47You brought me here for what?
30:48I tensed, shifted my weight, blocked Auntie behind me.
30:51No, no.
30:52I'm not here to hurt you.
30:53I swear.
30:54Mom is really dying.
30:56She...
30:57We didn't finish before my mother came stumbling out of her bedroom.
31:01In a giant nightgown, hair everywhere, face hollowed out.
31:04The second she saw me, she nearly tumbled down the stairs.
31:06Anya.
31:07My Anya.
31:08Sweetheart.
31:09Are you hurt?
31:10Are you hurt?
31:11Anya.
31:13My baby girl.
31:14I'm so sorry.
31:16It's all my fault, my sweet girl.
31:18I shouldn't have let those people take you away.
31:21Were you scared?
31:23My Anya?
31:24Two tears fell from her eyes onto the back of her hand.
31:27Both of us froze.
31:28She knew she had the memory of last life.
31:30She was crying for the version of herself who watched her daughter get dragged into a psych ward,
31:34sobbing until she vomited blood.
31:36Crying for the version of herself who let her daughter cling to a car door, begging to be hugged one
31:40more time, and turned away.
31:42Mia, stop with this insanity.
31:44Without you, I still have my son and daughter.
31:46My son is sweet and smart and adores his sister.
31:49My daughter is gentle and respectful.
31:51I can't imagine how I ended up with a neurotic mess like you.
31:53You're an embarrassment to this family.
31:55An embarrassment to this family.
31:56That was the last thing my mother had said to me in my last life.
31:59I'd realized a while back she was starting to get her memories back, too.
32:02The headmaster had asked me once, confused, if I had a nickname, Mia.
32:06Um, your mom texts me a lot, asked me to look after you.
32:09It was always normal.
32:10But the past two weeks, she keeps getting your name wrong.
32:12She'd thought it was a dream, or she'd lied to herself that it was a dream.
32:16But then she heard me.
32:17She realized it had all really happened, and she broke.
32:20Cole, send your mother to a psych ward.
32:22She's a better fit for the place than Olivia ever was.
32:24Cole, who had only been weeping, raised his head, looked at our increasingly unhinged mother, and dropped to his knees.
32:31While we waited for the doctor, I finally pieced together from Cole's broken account what had happened.
32:35Three years ago, Olivia had overheard our mother say she regretted adopting her.
32:38That broke something in her.
32:39The soft sweetness vanished.
32:41She turned obsessive, vicious, vicious to everyone, worse to herself.
32:45She started cutting herself.
32:46In the middle of the night, she'd take a knife into our parents' bedroom, slice open her arm, bleed.
32:50Cutting and crying, telling them how her father had begged ours to take her in, saying she loved them, saying
32:55she couldn't be abandoned.
32:56The whole family was terrified.
32:57No one dared say the words, send her away again.
33:00They watched her even more carefully, used to be out of love.
33:03Now it was fear, but she still felt unsafe.
33:05She started demanding everyone be with her, day and night.
33:08If anyone left, she screamed and clawed at whatever was in reach.
33:11Cole and Felix dropped out of school because she'd clawed up their faces.
33:14And that's why Felix's family had gone to war with mine, a month before.
33:18My mother was already not right in the head.
33:19She would sit alone in a room and call out softly,
33:21My girl.
33:22My girl.
33:23Olivia, thinking her adoptive mother had finally come around, ran in to throw her arms around her.
33:27My mother shoved her heart onto the floor.
33:29The softness was gone.
33:30The way she looked at Olivia was pure revulsion.
33:33Olivia finally understood.
33:34She wasn't the girl being called.
33:35Her adoptive mother was calling someone else.
33:37Someone invisible.
33:38Her real daughter.
33:39Olivia couldn't take the humiliation.
33:41She started torturing all of them harder.
33:42When she overheard my parents talking about cutting her loose the day she turned 18,
33:46she got out the paint and ruined the whole front of the house.
33:48I'll expose you.
33:49You abused a dead man's daughter.
33:51May you all rot.
33:53The night before college application deadlines,
33:55she demanded that Cole stay up and take her to a bar.
33:57When Cole flatly said he didn't want to, she sliced her wrist.
34:00Cole panicked, bandaged her, and went.
34:02She drugged his drink.
34:03By the time Cole came to, it was late the next afternoon.
34:06Cole, I matter more than the college, right?
34:09I'm the most important, right?
34:11Cole shut himself in his room and refused to come out.
34:13What was harder to believe was that she'd used my name to lure Felix out too.
34:17Cole said Felix's drink wasn't drugged.
34:19At least before he passed out, Felix had been completely alert.
34:22Somehow, Felix didn't make it to the application either.
34:25Felix's father showed up at our house with men.
34:27The men he brought stabbed my father and dragged Olivia to a psych ward.
34:31My mother was still wildly unstable, especially after the doctors arrived.
34:35She wrapped both arms around me and wouldn't let go, screaming,
34:37Don't take my daughter!
34:38Don't take me away!
34:40I pried her hands off me.
34:42First, I'm not your daughter.
34:43Second, my name isn't Mia.
34:45And I hate that name about as much as I hate you.
34:47You and your husband weren't raising kids.
34:49You were running a fight ring.
34:50Last one alive gets to call you mom?
34:52And honestly, I'm baffled.
34:53Every kid you adopt, every kid you raise, ends up a wreck.
34:56If you can't love your kids equally, why have them at all?
34:58She finally went silent, eyes huge, tears non-stop.
35:01In the end, like the last bit of air had been pushed out of her,
35:04she collapsed to her knees and let the doctors and nurses load her into the car.
35:07Past the bushes by the door, I could feel something burning into me.
35:10A stare.
35:11I turned.
35:11Just caught a limping figure walking away.
35:13The second I recognized that walk,
35:15Anya?
35:16Jace was calling me.
35:17I turned back.
35:17He was tilting or doubling.
35:19His outline split into two.
35:20Three.
35:21No, not him.
35:21And it was me.
35:22Anya.
35:23My head was so heavy, I'd walked into fog like a stray ghost,
35:27drifting, searching with nowhere to go.
35:29Anna.
35:30Anna.
35:31Anna.
35:31Someone calling me?
35:33But my name was Mia now.
35:34I'd had it changed.
35:35Anya.
35:36Don't scare me.
35:37Anya.
35:38Who was calling?
35:39It sounded like a boy.
35:39Voice cracked with panic.
35:41It made me want to cry.
35:42I wanted to tell him.
35:43Don't cry.
35:44I'm not worth it.
35:45You are.
35:45You deserve to be loved.
35:47Anya.
35:48Is your real name Anya?
35:50It's beautiful.
35:51So much better than Mia.
35:53Anya.
35:53From now on, I'll only call you Anya.
35:55Don't be scared.
35:56If that psycho comes back, I'll throw him out.
35:58He tries to choke you again, touch you.
36:00I'll kill him myself.
36:01Hey, Anya.
36:01Don't cry.
36:02They just shocked me a couple times.
36:03I'm tough.
36:04I can take it.
36:04Doesn't hurt.
36:05Anya.
36:06What's wrong?
36:06Why are you coughing blood?
36:07You're scaring me.
36:08What?
36:09Where did these bruises come from?
36:10Your brother.
36:11Your brother kicked you.
36:12Is he even human?
36:14Anna.
36:15No.
36:16Don't close your eyes, please.
36:18The blurry voices in the fog and one clear, sobbing voice overlapped.
36:21Oh, I know now.
36:23I see you.
36:25My chase.
36:26The boy who'd shared that psych ward with me once and last night.
36:30The boy who at 18 watched both his parents die, saving someone.
36:34The boy whose mind broke.
36:35The boy who, when Felix had a hand around my throat and his mouth on mine, broke out of
36:40his restraints and put a fist through Felix's temple.
36:42The boy who, again and again, sat through electroshock for me after I stopped breathing.
36:47He broke out of that godforsaken psych ward, set the Lindquist house on fire, watched them
36:52scream and run and shove each other in the flames, all one by one, then took a piece of
36:56broken glass and dragged it across his own throat.
36:58We met again, in the fog.
36:59He took my hand and led me forward, step by step.
37:02Anya, why didn't I find you sooner?
37:05I love you.
37:05I love you.
37:06I love you so much.
37:08You deserve everything.
37:09Anya, if we get to do it over, stay far from what hurts you.
37:13Love yourself more than anyone.
37:15Promise me.
37:16Yes.
37:17I want to make the trade.
37:18Trade my whole soul.
37:20For the love and feeling that girl pawned to you.
37:23She doesn't get to lose her ability to love.
37:25She has to love herself.
37:26She has to grow a heart that loves herself.
37:29Please, give it back.
37:31The sweet man looked up at the stubborn boy in front of him.
37:33His eyes held something almost like pity.
37:36All right.
37:37In fact, I'll make you a wager.
37:42How about it?
37:43I bet.
37:44This girl, even this lifetime, doesn't learn to love herself.
37:48I'll take every memory of you out of her.
37:50And you, I'll send back with these memories.
37:52You'll watch her, day after day, walk the same path.
37:55Unable to speak.
37:56Unable to change anything.
37:57He held out a hand.
37:58A contract.
37:59You're wrong.
38:01She will learn to love herself.
38:03I'm sure of it.
38:04The boy didn't hesitate.
38:06Gave him his heart.
38:07A flash of white light.
38:09I opened my eyes.
38:10A hospital ceiling and then by the bed, Jace.
38:13Slumped forward, gripping my hand like I might disappear.
38:16You're awake.
38:17My movement had woken him.
38:19I looked at him.
38:20At the dark circles under his eyes.
38:21At the worry he was trying to hide.
38:23The tears came before I could stop them.
38:25I know.
38:26I know it was you.
38:28Before he could react, I threw myself into his arms.
38:31Two months later, I was discharged.
38:33The doctor said it was a short blackout caused by emotional overload.
38:37Jace and I got into the same university just like we'd planned.
38:39In our free time, Jace put a lot of work into educating amateur climbers about the dangers of snow mountains
38:44and basic survival skills.
38:45The mountain rescue team we self-funded was now up and running.
38:48And his parents, still the same firecrackers they'd always been.
38:51I thought about asking them to stop climbing.
38:53Jace and I both worried they'd lose their lives saving someone again.
38:56Every time I tried, the light in their eyes shut me up.
38:58People need to love things.
39:00For forcing them to give it up is its own kind of cruelty.
39:03Luckily.
39:03The fall, we turned 18.
39:05They saved the climber, clinging to a cliff edge.
39:08This time, with a professional rescue team backing them up, nobody got hurt.
39:11I saw the headline pop on my phone and grabbed Jace and made him do three laps around the field
39:16with me.
39:17He finally dropped the casual front, knelt on the rubber track, and cried and laughed for half an hour.
39:21I looked down, scrolled.
39:23A few headlines also popped out.
39:25Adler family declares bankruptcy.
39:26Patriarch sentence for hiring a hit.
39:28Murder for hire case takes a turn.
39:30Olivia Lindquist confesses she drugged Felix Adler and handed him to men known to prey on young men.
39:35Love and revenge entangled.
39:37Felix Adler strangles Olivia Lindquist in a psychiatric facility.
39:41Death penalty likely.
39:42Former child prodigy Cole Lindquist found dead at home.
39:45Suicide suspected.
39:46Hey, why aren't you comforting me?
39:49What are you reading?
39:49I gave up, took his hand.
39:51Comforting you?
39:52Not enough.
39:53What do you want?
39:54He leaned in.
39:56You?
39:58Shameless.
39:59Two months later, I was discharged.
40:01The doctor said it was a short blackout caused by emotional overload.
40:04Jace and I got into the same university just like we'd planned.
40:07In our free time, Jace put a lot of work into educating amateur climbers about the dangers of snow mountains
40:12and basic survival skills.
40:13The mountain rescue team we self-funded was now up and running.
40:16And his parents, still the same firecrackers they'd always been.
40:19I thought about asking them to stop climbing.
40:21Jace and I both worried they'd lose their lives saving someone again.
40:24Every time I tried, the light in their eyes shut me up.
40:26People need to love things.
40:28For forcing them to give it up is its own kind of cruelty.
40:31Luckily.
40:31The fall, we turned 18.
40:32They saved the climber, clinging to a cliff edge.
40:35This time, with a professional rescue team backing them up, nobody got hurt.
40:40I saw the headline pop on my phone and grabbed Jace and made him do three laps around the field
40:44with me.
40:44He finally dropped the casual front, knelt on the rubber track and cried and laughed for half an hour.
40:49I looked down, scrolled.
40:51A few headlines also popped out.
40:52Adler family declares bankruptcy.
40:54Patriarch sentence for hiring a hit.
40:56Murder for hire case takes a turn.
40:58Olivia Lindquist confesses she drugged Felix Adler and handed him to men known to prey on young men.
41:03Love and revenge entangled.
41:05Felix Adler strangles Olivia Lindquist in a psychiatric facility.
41:09Death penalty likely.
41:10Former child prodigy Cole Lindquist found dead at home.
41:13Suicide suspected.
41:14Hey, why aren't you comforting me?
41:17What are you reading?
41:17I gave up, took his hand.
41:19Comforting you?
41:20Not enough.
41:21What do you want?
41:22He leaned in.
41:24You?
41:25Shameless.
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