A Scorching Apocalypse: My Kindness to a Friend Cost Me My Family Chapter 2

“Claire? Did you hear me?” she asked again, her tone pitiful.

I smirked coldly. Oh, I heard her just fine.

This was my chance to rewrite my fate.

“Olivia,” I said, my voice calm but distant, “Nathan probably didn’t mean it. He loves you too much to actually kick you out. You should go back and talk to him.”

There was silence on the line. Then, Olivia stammered, “W-what? Claire, are you mad at me? Is this because I didn’t listen to you before? Please, you’re the only person I can turn to. You’ve always been there for me. You’re my best friend!”

She began showering me with compliments, recounting all the ways I had helped her in the past.

But with every word she spoke, my heart only grew colder.

If she truly knew how much I had cared for her, why had she betrayed me so cruelly in my last life? Why had she called me a “fake friend” and destroyed my family out of jealousy?

I remembered telling Ethan, “Honey, Olivia is like a sister to me. Treat her the same way you treat me.”

How naive I had been. She was no sister—she was a monster.

And because of my blind trust, Ethan had died a horrific death, suffocating in the heat while searching for roses she had lied about.

This time, I wouldn’t make the same mistake.