REVENGE

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FOUR MONTHS AFTER THE BALL. RUBY JUNE. "My sweet angel, is that you?” my mother asked as soon as I entered her room. “No, Mama. It’s Ruby,” I said softly, closing the door behind me. “I brought your favorite cookies.” “Go away,” my mom hissed. The nurse looked at me with pity as I tried to hide the pain on my face. “How are you feeling today, Mom?” I asked, ignoring the fact that she had just asked me to leave. “I’m not fine,” she replied dryly, still gazing out of the window. She had not turned to look at me since I stepped in. I placed the cookies and flowers by the side of her bed before joining her by the window. She was gripping a picture frame so tightly that her knuckles had turned white. I sighed and leaned down to take it away, but she screamed at me. “Don’t take Golden away from me!” she yelled at the top of her voice. The nurse spoke softly. “She won’t let go of it, not even for a minute.” My mom had loved Golden dearly. She was my younger sister, a perfect and beautiful girl, exactly like her name. She stole everyone’s heart, including mine. Her untimely death was a great loss for us, and Mom was never the same again. As she grew older, it became worse. She blames the Fox family to this day for Golden’s death, insisting that if they had paid her salary instead of owing her for several months, she would have been able to save her life. “I see her,” she said softly as tears ran down her cheeks. “See who?” I asked, even though I knew who she was referring to. “I see her every day in my dreams. I hear her laughter, her angelic soft voice that lights up the whole room,” she said, slowly caressing the picture frame. “Do you see her too?” she asked, turning to face me. “Yes,” I answered quietly. She frowned and then used the picture frame to hit me. “No, you don’t,” she hissed. Then, as if realizing she had used her precious baby’s photo to hit me, she kissed it and whispered an apology to it. “You don’t love her. You are heartless,” she spat at me. I looked at her in shock. Not once had I ever stopped loving Golden. She was my sister, my only sister. She was Mom’s favorite child, and I didn’t care. After all, she was beautiful, and I wasn’t, so it made sense for her to receive all the love that Mom couldn’t give me. Her death was a shock to all of us, and even after her death, she still holds my heart. “I wished you had died instead of her,” she said. “Golden deserves to be living this lavish life. It should have been Golden instead of you. You are just like your father, an ungrateful bastard. You do not deserve to be the heir of your stepfather’s company. I feel like you robbed my daughter of the future she should have been enjoying,” she yelled. “Maybe you are right,” I said, struggling to keep my tears at bay. “It should have been me, and if I could go back in time, I would switch places with her. I loved her, Mom, and even after all these years, I still think about how our lives would be so much better if she were still in it.” “No, you don’t. I wouldn’t be surprised if her death gave you joy,” she said dismissively. “What? Why would you think that? Golden gave you the joy I could never give you. She was everything I wasn’t. I saw how you looked at her with pride, and with me, it was a look of pure hatred. Do you think I would want to cause us both pain by wanting her dead? Do you know how often I wished it was my life instead of hers? I wanted so badly to take her place because every time you look at me, I feel guilty like it was my fault,” I said as tears ran down my cheeks. “All I’ve ever wanted was for you to love me, but not at the expense of my dear sister.” “And why haven’t you done anything to make it right?” she asked, looking at me dead in the eyes as if I had not just poured out my heart to her. “Uhm? What do you mean?” I asked, wiping the tears off my cheeks. “You promised Golden at her grave to make her killers pay, yet you have done nothing all these years,” she said, eyeing me. “I’m sorry, but I’m still working…” I was barely finished with my sentence when my mom rudely interrupted me. “Shut up, you ingrate,” she hissed. “Just one simple task, and yet you have failed your sister. The Fox family is still moving freely with no repercussions. You are supposed to be their karma, Ruby. That’s what you promised your little sister. Yet, you disappointed her by doing nothing.” A rush of guilt overcame me. She was right. After my sister’s death, I hated the Fox family even more for ruining my once relatively happy life. But being so far away, I had slowly begun to forget my promise to her—to ruin their lives as they did mine. I would destroy them one after the other, starting with my high school bully, Charles, and then the rest of his family. “I will make them pay, Mama. I promise you,” I said. “And how do you intend to do that?” she asked, rolling her eyes. I sighed. “I don’t know yet, but I will surely think of a plan and inform you within a week.” “I knew you would say that, which is why I already made an arrangement for you,” she said, taking me by surprise. “What’s the plan?” “You become his breeder, and then you find out all their dark secrets. We will use it against them.”
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