The Heiress

Chapter 7

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The moment darkness overtakes her consciousness, she immediately assumed she was dead. But she kept waking and fading.

Waking and fading.

She heard a buzzing noise, then some muffled voices.

Then silence. She hated the silence more than the pain or the sounds of her bones breaking. No. She doesn't want the silence.

She wondered what happened. Why is she experiencing this silence? Then her head throbbed as memories came flowing.

They got into a car accident. She remembered the deafening sound of metal banging. She remembered being smashed by a tiny box, or maybe that was her laptop. She remembered the flames and the smoke. Gray smoke. Then she heard another explosion.

Then silence...she can't remember anything. Her memories keep flickering like a light with a damaged switch.

Is she dying? Must the world be so cruel? She died in a car crash in her previous life. Is she going to die like this again?

She tried to concentrate. Still, she felt trapped. Then she could hear voices. Shouting. Sobbing.

"What is wrong with her? You said she will wake up in 24 hours!?"

She heard someone shouting. Panicking. Sobbing. She wondered who owns that voice. She sounded so worried. Who could be so worried?

"Calm down. You must calm down. She is a strong girl."

Is that Jennie? How about her grandfather? He must have been so worried.

"Taehyung take her outside."

"NO! I will stay here. I will not leave her like this!"

"Idiot! Will your presence help her?" She heard her cousin's voice. Then she heard someone crying.

Who are they talking to? Who is she? Why is she crying? She badly wanted to open her eyes and see. She wanted to know.

She tried to gather her senses again.

Nothing.

Still nothing.

Then her consciousness flickered again.

"So, someone planned it?"

"Seems like it."

"Do you have any idea who would want her dead?"

The voices came as whispers, but she can hear them clearly. She wanted to ask. She wanted to know. She wanted to listen. But the voices faded as quickly as it came.

Does someone want her dead? She wondered who that might be. Did she offend anyone? But she had been avoiding everyone from her past life except her maternal family. Who would want her dead?

She heard another buzzing sound before it all faded.

"Did you suppress the news?"