We Shared a Body They Chose Her Every Time Chapter 08

We Shared a Body They Chose Her Every Time Chapter 08

Sophia stumbled and fell to the ground. Her eyes trembled as she looked at her brother, the brother who had

just hit her.

“Liam?” She held her red cheek as tears came instantly. “You hit me?”

Liam looked down at her. The old affection in his eyes was gone, replaced by nothing but disgust.

“Did you really not deserve it?”

He shook his head, full of disappointment.

“Look at yourself, Sophia. What have you become? All you do is go out and have fun. You’re useless.”

“I’m telling you right now, you’re not going anywhere. I’m hiring a tutor, and you’re going to study.”

Sophia was stunned.

The thought of being locked in a room studying all day, like I used to, made her break down in despair.

“No. I won’t do it. Liam, you can’t do this to me. I don’t want to be like Emily. I won’t.”

But the three of them had already made up their minds.

They dragged Sophia to the study, locked the door, and walked away.

Afterward, my parents, exhausted, went to their room.

Liam was exhausted too. Without realizing it, he walked to the room Sophia and I used to share.

He let out a bitter laugh. “So this is how hard you worked. And without your hard work, Sophia is nothing.”

He put his head in his hands. Tears fell before he could stop them. “All these years, we used you as Sophia’s

punching bag. Emily, I’m sorry.”

I saw it, the tears falling on the floor, one after another, like an endless stream.

My heart tightened. I didn’t know what to feel at such a cruel twist of fate.

Why did they only realize they had failed me after I was gone, after I had given up completely?

What good did it do?

Liam lifted his head, his red eyes moving around the room.

Only then did he see that the whole room was decorated for Sophia, with no trace of me anywhere.

No photos. No clothes. Even the awards I had worked so hard for, Sophia had thrown them in a box in the

corner.

The guilt and loss that hit him in that moment twisted his heart like a knife.

From the study, Sophia’s screaming filtered through the door.

“Let me out. I don’t want to study. The Harpers are rich. I’ll never spend all the money. Why are you making

me learn this useless stuff?”

This is false imprisonment. Let me out. Liam!”

Her curses and screams flooded Liam’s ears like an endless loop of noise.

He sat with his head down, and then he started laughing.

Karma. This was all his fault. “I deserve every bit of this.”

After that day, Sophia showed her true nature completely.

She screamed at the nannies, hit them, burned them with curling irons, and threw hot oatmeal in their faces

None of this surprised me, this was who she had always been.

Why else would she have beaten Madison Vance so badly, all over a dress?

In just one month, the Harpers went through ten nannies, none of them lasting more than a few days before

they quit crying.

The Harpers paid a fortune in medical bills and settlements.

One night, Sophia was screaming again upstairs.

My father’s face was dark.

My mother, who used to look like a socialite, now looked haggard and worn down.

Liam had dark circles under his eyes and didn’t look anything like the confident man in my memories.

Sophia was destroying all of them.

My mother screamed, her eyes red, and ran upstairs and threw open the door. “Stop screaming!”

But as soon as she said it, Sophia lunged at her with a smile and stabbed her in the stomach with a dinner

fork. “Die! You all love Emily so much. Then go die with her.”

“Mom!” Liam’s scream was raw. He watched the blood pour out, and his face went wild with horror.

My father panicked too. He picked my mother up and rushed her to the hospital.

Sophia laughed like a maniac.

Liam looked at Sophia, who had completely lost her mind, his eyes bloodshot. He called 911.

Sophia was taken away by the police for assault.

Liam watched the police car disappear, then looked at the blood on the floor. He fell onto the couch, laughing

and crying at the same time.

“This is all karma. Emily, I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.”

“I was wrong, Emily. I’m sorry.”

I took a deep breath and looked up at the ceiling, blinking back my tears. They didn’t deserve my forgiveness.

Then I felt my soul beginning to fade.

When I opened my eyes again, I was in the arms of a woman in a beautiful dress.

People stood all around me, looking at me with nothing but love.

My tiny fingers curled into fists.

The woman held me close. “My precious baby. Mommy’s precious baby is here.”