Chapter 1

Just because I missed four emergency calls from my younger brother before he fell to his death, my parents hated me for the rest of their lives.

Even my wife, Chloe, abused me verbally because of this for ten whole years.

"You must always remember, Ethan. You killed Lucas. How do you still have the nerve to live?"

The constant accusations from everyone around me left me in a state of mental exhaustion. I ended up mixing up the wrong chemical reagents at work, causing a massive lab explosion.

It was Chloe who rushed in, risking her own life to drag me out. But the blast shattered her vital organs.

Before she died, she gripped my hand tightly. "I hope in the next life, I never, ever meet you again."

Only then did I find out that Chloe had loved my brother, Lucas, for half her life.

She had lied about being infertile just so she could save her first night for Lucas.

Yet, those who didn't know the truth accused me of being a jinx, claiming I cursed both my wife and my brother to death.

In utter despair, I jumped from a building to end my life. But when I opened my eyes again, I had returned to the eve of Lucas’s death.

This time, I only want to live for myself.