You Only Get to See Our Twins in My Corpse

Chapter 6

Evelyn's scream pierced the air as she caught sight of the bloodstains on the wall and my lifeless body sprawled in the corner, twisted in a grotesque, unnatural position. She threw herself into Alexander's arms, trembling.

"Don't be scared, Evelyn."

Alexander's voice was uncharacteristically gentle as he held her close. But when he turned his gaze back to Dr. James and the butler, his eyes were ice-cold.

"That scheming bitch! This whole thing is a setup! Lily must have conspired with you two to stage this ridiculous scene and steal my family's fortune!"

Dr. James clenched his jaw. The butler kept his head down, not daring to speak.

"Tomorrow, I'll officially dissolve my marriage with Lily! That child she gave birth to will never be acknowledged as the Frost heir!" Alexander's voice thundered through the attic. His gaze bore into the butler and Dr. James. "If you value your jobs, you'll track Lily down and bring her back here to apologize to Evelyn!"

Dr. James, furious, finally snapped. "The body is right in front of you! Where the hell do you expect us to find her?!"

Alexander scoffed. "James, our families have been close for generations. I don't want to turn this into an ugly feud. If you're so obsessed with Lily, you can have her. But she's not leaving without signing those divorce papers."

Evelyn's eyes sparkled with excitement. "Brother Alex, are you really divorcing Lily?"

He smirked. "Of course. The second we find her, I'm ending this farce. Evelyn, are you ready to be my bride?"

Blushing, Evelyn clung to his arm. "Evelyn has been ready for a long time."

Dr. James spat in disgust, unwilling to entertain this insanity any longer. The butler, however, driven by the fear of losing his position, scoured the attic for any clue of my supposed escape.

It was ridiculous.

I was right there.

My corpse, discarded and forgotten, yet they refused to see the truth. Even the baby, the one I had shielded with my last breath, was mistaken for a doll and tossed into the trash.

Then Alexander stormed to the window, the very one he had nailed shut. His hand paused over the bloodstained latch.

His expression twisted. Then, rage took over.

"So desperate to escape?!" His voice was sharp, mocking. "You hated being my wife that much?!"

His fist clenched, and with a final declaration, he roared, "Fine! Lily! If you're out there somewhere, laughing at me, then hear this, I don't want you anymore! From this moment on, you are nothing to me!"

He ripped the "City-Toppling Love" necklace from his pocket and smashed it against the ground, shattering it into glittering fragments.

Evelyn, hesitant, inched closer to my corpse. Her voice trembled. "Brother Alex… what if this really is sister Lily?"

Alexander pulled her into his arms, his grip possessive, his words dripping with disdain. "Don't be scared, Evelyn. This is just another one of Lily's tricks. We don't need to wait for her to crawl out of hiding. I'll have my lawyer draft the divorce papers first thing tomorrow, and next week, I'll announce our engagement to the world."

I stared at the shattered necklace, at the broken pieces of what was once a grand, unwavering love.

How easily he had destroyed it.

I thought back to the first time I met him, on a snow-covered mountain, during an expedition gone horribly wrong. The storm had come without warning, slowing the team down. Especially Alexander, who had no business being in such harsh terrain.

As team leader, I stayed behind to help him while the others pushed forward. When the blizzard trapped us in an abandoned cabin with no food or water, I relied on my survival instincts to keep us alive for three excruciating days.

When we were finally rescued, he told me those three days felt like a lifetime. That he had fallen hopelessly in love with me.

I didn't believe it.

I knew better than anyone, when you're drowning in desperation, even the smallest kindness can feel like salvation. It wasn't love. Just a trick of the mind.

So I rejected him.

But he didn't give up.

For four years, he followed me across treacherous landscapes, braving every extreme condition just to be by my side. He climbed mountains despite altitude sickness. He searched for me in the middle of a snowstorm when I returned to camp late.

Eventually, I let my guard down. I let myself believe in him.

People said I was lucky, that I had won the heart of the Frost heir, a man who would marry no one but me.

I believed it too.

Until Evelyn came back.

It was subtle at first. A phone call here, a visit there. But soon, every time Evelyn needed something, Alexander was there in an instant, dropping everything for her.

"Evelyn grew up with me. She depends on me."

"She's sick and alone. Of course, I brought her to stay with us. You should take care of her."

Little by little, the space in his heart that once belonged to me shrank. Until I was nothing but a shadow.

Before Evelyn returned, Lily was cherished.

After Evelyn returned, Lily became an afterthought.

I had already asked for a divorce, but he wouldn't let me go.

Instead, he locked me in this attic, his expression colder than I'd ever seen.

"Think it over, Lily. If you want a divorce, you won't take this child with you."

"You're staying here until the baby is born."

The room he trapped me in was eerily similar to that cabin in the mountains.

But this time, it wasn't the snow keeping me prisoner.

It was Alexander.

The survival instincts I had once been so proud of were useless against his cruelty.

And now, as my body lay there, lifeless and abandoned, Alexander was too preoccupied planning his engagement to Evelyn to notice he had already lost me forever.