Chapter 2

In this life, I was much calmer than I had been in my previous one.

Looking closely, I noticed that my mother-in-law was wearing makeup and a brand-new outfit, while my father-in-law had brought a suitcase.

They did not look like people rushing to the place where their daughter had been injured.

They looked more like they were heading off on a business trip or a vacation.

There was something else, too.

After the accident, their family’s standard of living had not declined at all.

Instead, it had improved.

They had known about Olivia and Ethan Cole all along.

After Olivia faked her death, she must have secretly sent them money on a regular basis, which was why their family had been living so comfortably.

I was the only idiot kept in the dark, working myself to death to repay the loans.

To put it bluntly, that entire family had been sucking me dry.

“Michael, I’ve already bought the train tickets. We leave in an hour, so let’s hurry to the station!” Noah Bennett was being unusually thoughtful.

Normally, he made me order a rideshare even when he went to the supermarket, but now he had taken the initiative to buy the tickets.

He was obviously afraid that his sister would return and run into me.

He wanted to cover for her.

“Okay, let’s leave now.” I nodded quickly.

I had already taken everything out of the safe and put it in my personal bag.

I had also changed the safe’s password.

Of course, that alone was far from enough.

Olivia was very clever.

If she noticed something was wrong and then staged a miraculous return from the mudslide, she would suffer no losses at all.

On the contrary, she could transfer the money whenever she wanted and then leave with Ethan to enjoy themselves.

So if she was going to die, I had to make sure she died completely.

After getting into the car, I immediately called my best friend, Ryan Miller, and told him to move people into my house to watch over it for me.

I specifically told him that the contents of the safe were extremely important and that no one could leave the safe unattended for even a moment.

“Even when you sleep, you have to hold on to that safe!”

I gave him the order solemnly.

To put it simply, I did not want to give Olivia any chance to get near the safe.

Even if I had changed the password and removed everything inside, I still could not let her touch it.

The moment she touched the safe, she would become suspicious.

As long as she did not touch it, however, she would continue to hope.

She would keep pretending to be dead.

She wanted to wait for an opportunity, while I wanted to buy time.