My Rich Best Friend Returned for Revenge and Regretted It LaterChapter 1
My best friend, Lizzy Blake, was raped and ended up taking her own life. But I decided to protect the rapist’s identity.
Her mother once knelt before me, begging for the truth, but I shut the door in her face. Even when the villagers came to my house in anger, I let my dog chase them away without hesitation.
Ten years later, when I was dying in bed, my other best friend, Ivana Sinclair, returned to the village. She had become the richest woman in the country and she came back for revenge.
The first thing she did after coming back was force me onto a public memory trial stage, like the ones used for criminals facing execution.
“Selina, you heartless monster who covered a crime. Lizzy and I were blind to ever call you a friend.”
“Lizzy has been dead for ten years and you let her killer go free all this time.”
“Today, I’ll use the memory extractor I invented to show everyone who you really protected.”
But when the real rapist’s face appeared on the big screen, her expression turned completely pale.
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The stage that Ivana arranged for me was huge. The whole village filled the town square until there was no room left to stand. Reporters had their cameras ready and the livestream spread across every major platform.
I was already dying. My organs were failing and only medicine and nutrient fluids kept me alive. Yet they still dragged me out into the town square like a criminal.
A man rushed forward and grabbed my throat, screaming, “Selina! Why did you protect that monster?”
“You ruined my family! Why didn’t you just die instead?”
He choked me so hard that I almost lost consciousness and my vision gradually went dark.
The crowd went wild, roaring in anger, “What a heartless woman! Her friend was raped before her death and she knew who did it but stayed silent.”
“Her friend jumped into the river to end her life. Her poor mother begged her until her knees bled and she still refused to open the door.”
“She even set her dogs on people. How disgusting can she be?”
All of their curses were aimed at me.
Ivana stood nearby, her brows tightly furrowed. In this entire world, other than Lizzy’s parents, no one hated me more than she did.