Chapter 6
Just then, Healer Petra stepped out of the operating room.
The three of them rushed over, eager to ask how the surgery went.
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I snapped back to the present, my chest clenching as I watched them. I wanted to know how they would react once they found out I was dead.
Removing her gloves wearily, Healer Petra said, “The surgery was a success. The kidney was transplanted smoothly. It’s just that the donor-”
Before she could finish, her assistant wheeled Laila out of the operating room.
The three of them immediately surrounded her, too caught up to hear the rest of what Healer Petra had to say.
And my body? It was tossed aside, left in the cold morgue like nothing.
A wave of sorrow washed through me. No one cared about me when I was alive, but I couldn’t believe that even now, after I was dead, no one bothered to claim my body.
Did I really not deserve to be loved?
I had already given in over and over again, always trying to please everyone. I didn’t ask for much–I just wanted Mom, Dad, and Simon to love me a bit more.
