They Erased Me, So I Rewrote My Life Chapter 01

They Erased Me, So I Rewrote My Life Chapter 01

I traded my ability to love my family for the chance to start over.

The deal was done.

When I opened my eyes again, I was back on my eighteenth birthday.

On the television, my father, State Senator Alexander Walton, was being interviewed alongside my adopted sister, Savannah. They both wore the practiced smiles of a picture-perfect family.

She was the girl plucked from a low-income neighborhood, the most valuable asset in the family’s publicity machine.

And I was the problem they were about to discard.

In my last life, they had smiled just like this when they sent me to hell.

This time, I was back.

I looked down at my wrist.

The old scars were gone.

A faint smile touched my lips.

The love was gone, too.

They would never use love to control me again.

Now, I would start over.

…

“Eliza?” My brother, Ethan, the Walton family’s heir apparent, frowned at me. “What are you doing, just staring at the TV?”

I didn’t answer. I walked straight past him.

He froze for a second, then hurried after me.

“Hey, what’s wrong with you? Dad said you should be happy for Savannah.”

“That’s your victory,” I said. “It has nothing to do with me.”

Ethan’s expression went stiff.

In his memory, I had never spoken to him that way.

My mother’s voice floated up from downstairs. “Kids, come down! We got a cake for Savannah!”

Ethan glanced at me, then hurried downstairs toward that warm, respectable scene.

I stood in the shadow of the staircase and looked down at them.

My parents flanked Savannah. Campaign advisers flanked my parents. Everyone was smiling. Savannah stood in the center like the most valuable campaign asset in the house.

She was also the person who had destroyed my life in my last one.

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

I turned and went back to my room, feeling no trace of regret. Their laughter followed me up the stairs as I quietly shut the door.

The room was silent.

I opened my laptop and typed into the search bar:

How to terminate parental control over personal affairs after turning eighteen.