I Died In The Freezer

When Joy Staton, my adoptive sister, fainted in the freezer on her birthday, William Staton, my brother, checked on the security footage in rage. The moment he saw that I was the one who took Joy into the freezer, he kicked me inside without hesitation.

Before shutting the door, he stared at me in disgust. “You’ve been pushing your luck a lot these days, huh? If I’d been a second too late, Joy would’ve died!”

I wanted to defend myself, but William refused to listen and slammed the door shut.

I heard him talking to the bodyguards outside.

“If she doesn’t apologize, don’t let her out!”

But he did not know that Joy had set the freezer to –58 °F. I did not even have the strength to complain about the freezer being cold.

William did not know that the sister he once loved dearly had stopped breathing in the freezer. He had killed his only blood relative left in the world.

“Well? Has she apologized?” William swirled the wine in the glass with a cold look in his eyes.

“I didn’t hear anything from the freezer.” The bodyguard shook his head.

William’s movements stilled for a moment before he scoffed. “And she had the nerve to say she was scared! She didn’t even cry! It looks like Joy was telling the truth.”

The bodyguard was taken aback. He stammered, “But Miss Violet has always been frail. Could she have fainted because of the low temperature?”

“Fainted?” William chuckled. “She accidentally got into the freezer once when she was a kid, and she was perfectly fine, even though she stayed in there for two days. It’s been less than half an hour. How could she have possibly fainted? The freezer isn’t that cold.”

He spoke in such a flighty manner that it was clear he did not take the bodyguard’s words seriously.

But he had forgotten that when I was first shut in the freezer, it permanently damaged one of my legs, even though I had survived it.

He had also forgotten how badly he broke down when he found me unconscious in the freezer for the first time.

“Enough! Just forget about her! We have more important things to do now.”

He put down the wine glass and walked to the woman at the center of the banquet hall. He held her hand. He looked at her affectionately. “How do you feel, Joy? Do you still feel cold?”

Joy shook her head.

William sighed in relief before patting her shoulder. “Plenty of socialites came today. You need to seize the chance to befriend as many of them as you can. That way, Violet won’t be able to mistreat you anymore.”

Joy pursed her lips, then said in a conflicted way, “Should we let Violet out? The freezer is really cold. I almost started to cry before I fainted in there. Violet’s so frail. She definitely won’t be able to handle it. I’m so worried about her getting hurt that I can’t even think about making friends.”

She gripped William’s sleeve tightly and pretended to be worried. She lowered her head in sadness, but as my spirit drifted beside her, I saw her lips curl up in a malicious smile.

William immediately consoled her. “Joy, you’re just too kind! If I hadn’t arrived on time, you wouldn’t be standing here talking. Since she dared to lock you in, it’s a fair price she needs to pay.”

He held Joy’s hand gently. “Alright. Forget about her now. It’s your birthday today. Stop frowning.”

Then, with a wave of his hand, a servant pushed a ten-tier cake into the hall.

Joy covered her mouth in shock, and her face lit up in delight.

William smiled at that. “Make a wish. I’ll give you whatever you wish for.”

She shut her eyes and whispered, “I wish that Violet would treat me better this year.”

I wanted to laugh.

When she mentioned my name, the tenderness in William’s gaze turned to hate. It was as if I were his mortal enemy, even though I was his real sister and was formerly his only blood relative left.

Since one of my legs was permanently crippled, my body became really frail. I could not even go to school, so my parents adopted Joy from an orphanage. She was the same age as I was, and they wanted her to keep me company.

In the beginning, we were the best of friends, and I treated her like my own sister, but after my parents passed away in an accident, everything changed.

For a while, I cried every day.

William was younger than fifteen back then, and he was busy with taking care of my parents’ company and the huge fortune they left behind. Even in his darkest day, when he was totally exhausted, he still found the time and energy to comfort me.

But one day, when I was crying, he stopped by my room no more. Instead, he went straight to Joy’s room.

It was at that moment that I learned that Joy was the only person who comforted him after my parents’ passing.

To him, I was a burden, while Joy was the one who helped him through his darkest hour.

After gaining William’s affection, Joy no longer played with me like before. To gain William’s complete devotion, she did everything she could to set me up. She even kicked down my wheelchair once.

The moment I tried fighting back, she complained about it to William. She told him that I had hurt myself while trying to chase her down because I was afraid she would steal his affection.

I thought that William would side with me, but he sided with Joy without hesitation.

He even gave all the beautiful dresses to Joy that my parents had bought for me.

When I demanded an answer from him, he just stared at my wheelchair and said, “You don’t need it anyway.”

It was then that I truly realized that William and Joy’s relationship had changed.

I always thought that William would marry Joy one day. He never talked about it, but I knew that he treated her like his sister only in public.

I just never thought that their secret affair would be more important to him than our twenty-year relationship as siblings.

The person who did his best to save me from the freezer had thrown me inside it because of something so minor.

Back then, he had thanked God for saving me, but this time, he killed me with his own hands.

I drifted beside them and stared at William as he smiled. Suddenly, a thought struck me.

I wondered if he would cry at my corpse. Would he cry like last time?

If he learned that the woman he treated like a princess had lowered the temperature in the freezer to kill his own sister, how would he react?