Voices From My Womb My Best Friend’s Deadly Rebirth

I got pregnant by accident, and Lucas and I decided to rush the wedding. On the day of the ceremony, while sitting in the bridal suite getting my makeup done, I suddenly heard a whisper coming straight from my womb: [Babe, run for your life! Your fiancé is trying to kill you. He staged a car crash on purpose.] [Once you're dead, he’ll take over the company we built together and use the money to spoil his childhood sweetheart!] Hearing the unmistakable voice of my best friend, Lily, I froze in shock. She had drowned three years ago saving my life. Did she reincarnate into my unborn baby just to save me again? Panicked, I grabbed my bag and bolted! And just like she said, the bridal car crashed—except Lucas was the one driving it while frantically searching for me. He died with my picture clutched in his bleeding hand, my name still on his lips. [Babe, his crash was just an accident. He never truly loved you—don’t fall for his pathetic act.] [Hurry to the hospital! The most urgent thing right now is transferring your mom to another facility.] [Hearing about you ditching the altar gave her a massive heart attack. Her attending surgeon is completely incompetent—he’s going to botch the surgery and kill her!] The next second. My dad called, sobbing that Mom was in the ER fighting for her life. I didn't dare hesitate and immediately had my dad arrange an emergency transfer. In the end, because of the delay, Mom died right there in the back of the ambulance! I completely broke down. That was when my best friend’s voice echoed in my head again: [Oh, God... Poor Mom. If only we had transferred her just a little sooner.] [Babe, you need to pull yourself together. Cut all business ties with Mr. Vance immediately.] [Otherwise, his financial ruin will drag your company down, tear your family apart, and strip you of everything you own!] Mom was dead because I blindly followed Lily's warning. This time, there was no way in hell I would listen to her! Yet two weeks later, Mr. Vance’s empire actually went under. The collateral damage hit my company overnight, bankrupting me and burying me under mountains of debt. And furious loan sharks beat me to death right on the spot! When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the morning of my wedding. Lily’s familiar voice rang in my mind once more: [Babe, run for your life.......] Listening to the exact same words from my past life, a chilling numbness crept down my spine, suffocating me. Did she come back to save me, or to destroy me? Why did every choice—whether I trusted her or not—lead straight to a brutal end? [Luna, babe, can you hear me?] [Stop spacing out! If you don't leave right this second, it’ll be too late.] [The moment Lucas gets here, he’ll find an excuse to shove you into that bridal car, and it will be the end of you!] Her frantic voice pleaded inside my head. This time, I didn't move. "Lily, could you be mistaken?" "Lucas has been amazing to me. We’ve been together for four years, and he’s never hurt me." "Besides, we’re riding in the same car. If he hired a hitman to stage a crash, isn't he risking his own life too?" In my last life, I listened to Lily, blocked Lucas's number, and ran away from my own wedding. It drove Lucas insane. He sped through the city looking for me, only to crash and die! The dashcam footage proved it. Even in his final breath, he was gripping my picture, whispering my name. If he loved me that much, how could he possibly want me dead? [Sweetheart, people are snakes inside! You can’t read a man’s heart by his pretty face, don’t you get that?] [Trust me! The only reason my soul found its way into your womb was to protect you!] [Lucas calculated everything. His hired driver knows the exact angle to hit your side of the car.] [You’ll die instantly, while Lucas will walk away after a few months in a cast.] Her voice grew shrill and breathless. I tuned her out, calmly picking up my makeup brush and slipping into my wedding dress. Minutes later, the groom and his groomsmen arrived outside. Lily's voice turned screechy and desperate. What she said next made my blood run cold, shattering every ounce of my composure![Luna, please! You have to believe me!] [Remember when we were little and a garden snake bit you right on the butt, and I stupidly tried to suck the venom out like in the movies?] [Remember three years ago when I drowned saving you from that rip current? I love you more than anyone in this world! Why would I ever lie to you?] At that moment, fists banged excitedly against the door. My hand froze right before turning the knob. A suffocating dilemma tore through my chest. After everything that happened in my last life, I couldn't help but suspect that this voice wasn't Lily at all, but some sick monster playing games with my mind. A monster that got my fiancé and my mother killed. Yet, the snake bite story was an intimate secret shared only between Lily and me. No one else on Earth knew. We grew up together, closer than sisters, bonded by life and death. Why would she ever want to hurt me? Could she really be telling the truth? Were the deaths of Lucas and Mom in my past life just horrible accidents? Bang— The door flew open, cutting off my thoughts. Seeing Lucas rush toward me, tears welled up in my eyes, instantly washing away all my doubts. Tucked inside the bridal bouquet in his hands was a diamond-and-sapphire necklace worth well over a million dollars. I had fallen in love with its design on a luxury magazine months ago, but because of the price tag, I only stared at it. I never once asked him for it. Yet Lucas noticed. He tracked it down and bought it secretly, saving it as a surprise for our wedding day! How could love like this ever be fake? I shoved Lily’s warnings to the back of my mind and threw my arms around him in tears. We walked through the ceremony smoothly and headed toward the waiting bridal car outside. [I’m losing my mind here!] [Luna, you are so blindly in love it's disgusting! You're hopeless!] [You don't believe me, do you?] [Just watch! Lucas is going to force you into the rear right seat, and that truck will crush you and our baby to pieces!] No matter what Lily screamed in my head, I kept silent. Still, as we approached the limousine, a prick of caution made me turn to Lucas: "The sun is pretty harsh on the right side. Let's switch—I'll sit on the left." The second the words left my mouth, Lucas froze. Then, his grip tightened on my shoulder as he firmly guided me toward the right door. "It’s fine, Luna. The tint is heavy, you won’t feel the sun." "Besides, my grandma always said it's an old wedding superstition—the bride has to sit on the right for luck. On our big day, let's just stick to tradition, okay?" Instantly, Lily started screaming triumphantly: [Open your eyes, girl! You know him better than I do! Lucas has never believed in superstitions! He’s making up a cheap excuse because he has blood on his hands!] A wave of unease churned in my stomach. Yet, on second thought, didn't that just prove how much he cared? A man who was always purely practical was suddenly honoring silly superstitions just for the sake of our future. I took a deep breath, calmed my racing pulse, and pushed the fear down. The ride was smooth and uneventful. As the reception venue came into view, I finally let out a sigh of relief and turned my gaze from the window toward Lucas. That was when I caught him rapidly sliding his phone into his pocket, visibly shielding the screen from me. In that split second, a profile picture on his notifications burned itself into my eyes—one that was painfully familiar![Now are you finally awake, you idiot?] [You saw it! That’s Chloe’s picture! He’s texting his childhood sweetheart behind your back on your wedding day! Does that look like true love to you?] [Bail out right now while you still have a chance!] That unmistakable profile photo and Lucas’s guilty twitch made my world spin. I snapped, reaching for his jacket: "Lucas, give me your phone!" Instead, he jammed it behind his back, panic flashing across his face as he forced an awkward smile. "Luna, babe, it's our wedding. Don't overthink things—" Before he could finish, Lucas's body jerked rigid. He lunged forward, grabbing my arm in terror. I caught his sudden horror, spun around instinctively, and saw a massive commercial delivery truck barreling straight toward my door! My blood ran cold as pure, icy dread swallowed me whole. "Driver, stop! PULL OVER!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. Startled, the driver slammed on the emergency brakes. The car whipped into a wild, screeching drift, tyres smoking. Before it could balance out— BOOM! A deafening roar ripped through the air, and my world went completely black. I don't know how much time passed, but agonizing pain dragged me back to consciousness. Paramedics were rushing toward me with a gurney, their faces pale with urgency. And right next to me lay Lucas—crushed, bloody, and dead beyond saving! [He got what he deserved!] [The bastard set you up, but karma caught up with him. He died in your place!] [That truck was aimed right at your seat. Thank God you screamed in time! The drift changed the car's angle, and his seat took the fatal hit instead.......] Her words turned into muffled background noise. My head pounded violently. Lucas’s shady behavior right before the crash proved it—he really was trying to kill me! Lily hadn't lied to me! All that "deep, unconditional love" was nothing but a sickening, one-sided joke........ [Don't cry, babe. A scumbag like him isn't worth your tears.] [Your injuries are just surface bruises. The real emergency is getting to the hospital to transfer your mom!] [When she heard about the wreck, she collapsed from a heart attack and was rushed to the ER.] [The surgeon assigned to her is a hack—he’s going to kill her on the operating table!] Lily’s urgent voice snapped me back to reality. Yet right behind it came a wave of dizzying confusion. This timeline proved Lily was right about the crash. So why did Mom die in the ambulance when I tried to transfer her in my past life? "I'm fine!" "Go help the driver!" I shoved the paramedics' hands away, forced myself onto my feet, and flagged down a relative who had pulled over at the scene to rush me to the hospital. Mom's life was on the line. I couldn't afford to jump to conclusions this time. I had to see her with my own eyes before making any calls. Minutes later, I burst into the hallway and spotted Dad pacing outside the operating doors, looking destroyed. "Dad! How is Mom?" Dad dragged trembling hands across his pale face. "The doctors said it's bad. They need to do bypass surgery immediately, or she won't make it." Lily’s voice instantly cut in: [Lies! Operating here is what's going to kill her!] [Babe, my warning already saved your life once!] [Don’t second-guess me! Stop the surgery and transfer her to St. Jude’s right now!]I stood there, frozen and speechless. In my past life, I stubbornly insisted on transferring her, and all I got was her cold, stiff corpse in the back of an ambulance. Remembering that soul-crushing grief made my chest tighten until I could barely breathe. "Doctor, I want to transfer my mom." "Given her current stats, can she survive the drive to the nearest medical center?" Hearing my question, the nurses and surgical staff looked at me like I had lost my mind. "Ma'am, your mother is in critical shock. Every second counts. Why on earth would you move her?" "Don't you know who Dr. Miller is? He's the top cardiothoracic surgeon in the state! You have the best in the room and you want to look elsewhere?" My head spun. I screamed inside my mind: *Lily, you said this doctor was incompetent!* Lily fired back instantly: [He was great before, but not today!] [He’s going to make a critical slip during the procedure that stops her heart permanently!] [Stop stalling! Moving her now is her only shot!] Every instinct told me to trust my best friend. Yet the memory of Mom dying on that cold stretcher, coupled with the monitors beeping frantically behind the doors, told me I couldn't gamble with her life again. If I put her in an ambulance, she would die on the road just like before! Gritting my teeth, I made the hardest call of my life. "Please, Dr. Miller. Do whatever it takes. Start the surgery!" Dr. Miller nodded grimly, already scrubbed in. The heavy doors sealed shut. Lily kept cursing inside my head, calling me reckless, calling me an idiot. I didn't answer. I dropped to my knees on the cold tile, praying with every fiber of my being for Mom to pull through. Two hours later. Dr. Miller stepped out, his face completely pale, and slowly shook his head at me. The surgery... had failed. Mom was gone. Her heart had stopped forever. A bottomless abyss of guilt and agony swallowed me whole. The shock crushed my chest, and darkness pulled me under. I didn't wake up until the next morning, roused by Lily's frantic sobbing in my mind: [Babe, wake up! Please!] [I know you panicked yesterday, and it's not your fault you didn't trust me. Don't blame yourself.] [But you have to listen to me this time! Terminate your business contracts with Mr. Vance immediately! His firm is about to collapse, and if you're tied to him, you'll lose the company, go bankrupt, and end up with nothing!] I dragged myself up on the hospital bed. Biting the inside of my cheek until I tasted copper, I forced myself to stay awake through the blinding grief. Lily was right about one thing—I couldn't afford to break down. Mom was gone, but Dad was still here, and my baby was still here. I had to protect what was left of my life! In my previous life, ignoring Lily’s warning about Mr. Vance drove me into bankruptcy and got me beaten to death by loan sharks. I couldn't make the same mistake twice. Now fully convinced of Lily's foresight, I spent the night liquidating assets to pay the massive contract cancellation penalty and severed all ties with Mr. Vance. Once the paperwork was finalized, I breathed a sigh of relief and poured myself into organizing Mom's memorial service. A few days later, I woke up to a brutal notification: My company was bankrupt! Paying that exorbitant contract penalty had drained all our liquid reserves. And Mr. Vance, whose business had supposedly collapsed in my past life, had just closed a massive tech merger. Furious at my sudden breach of contract, he used all his leverage to deliver a fatal blow to my cash-strapped company! "How did this happen?!" "Lily, you told me dropping Mr. Vance was the only way to save the business!" "Why did I still lose everything?" "Answer me! Say something!" Silence. No matter how hard I screamed, Lily didn't make a sound. Panicked, I bolted toward the front door to head to the office. The moment I opened it, the exact same gang of loan sharks from my past life stepped out of the shadows, blocking the hallway. They shoved past the threshold, demanding immediate repayment on the business loans. I didn't have a dime left. Furious, they began throwing punches, slamming me against the walls. In the chaos, my temple cracked hard against the iron frame of the hallway fire hose cabinet. Excruciating pain exploded in my skull, and my vision blurred into static. The cold dread of death closed around my throat once again! I couldn't wrap my head around it! Two lives. Six different choices. And yet, every single road led to the exact same graveyard! Why was I always the one cornered and murdered in the end? As the debt collectors kicked my ribs, hopeless despair tore me apart. My consciousness began slipping away. Then, out of nowhere, an overlooked detail struck my brain like a lightning bolt! I got it. I finally figured out what was wrong! I finally understood why every choice I made was a deadly trap!