They made my son's parentage the butt of a joke. So I made them submit to a three-generation DNA test. On the night of my mother-in-law Celeste's sixtieth birthday, she and her husband, Adrian, used a forged paternity test to turn my five-year-old son into the evening's “surprise entertainment.” My sister-in-law, Tessa, had hidden cameras set up in advance, waiting to capture my reaction when I was accused of cheating. Adrian knew the report was fake, but in front of dozens of relatives and friends, he still called my son a bastard and shoved a prepared divorce agreement at me. After the video went viral, people plastered my son's face across the internet, dug up the name of his preschool, and found the company where I worked. I lost the project I'd spent a year building. My son started waking from nightmares, asking me why Daddy didn't want him anymore. When the truth finally came out, Adrian said, “We just wanted to scare you a little, see if you'd act guilty. It was just a family prank. Why did you have to ruin everyone over it?” In my previous life, I tried desperately to explain myself. In the end, their edited videos and fabricated evidence cost me my child, my property, and my reputation. I died alone on a forgotten winter night. When I opened my eyes again, I was back in that restaurant, one minute before the fake report flashed onto the screen. This time, I didn't argue. I held my son tighter and looked at my father-in-law, Graham. “Celeste is right. Owen isn't your biological grandson.”
For over thirty years, Harlan's wife Janet pretended they were struggling financially while secretly spending her money on her ex, Connor Sackett. When their son Asher lands in the hospital, Harlan struggles to find the final fifty dollars for his medical bill, while Janet claims she has nothing to give. After Harlan's mother sacrifices her own medicine to help him, Harlan discovers proof of Janet's secret wealth and her relationship with Connor. What hurts even more is learning that Janet secretly gave away his factory job and pension to Connor decades ago. After thirty-five years of sacrifice, Harlan finally decides he has had enough and files for divorce, determined to reclaim everything Janet took from him.
The year my girlfriend, Maisie Summers, and I were supposed to get married, I broke up with her. Later, she made it big and used every means necessary to force me to marry her anyway. Everyone says we're destined to be together from the start. Yet no one knows that after we got married, she's been bringing different men home every so often. I never react and pretend as if I don't see anything. While she sleeps around night after night, I silently count how many days I have left to live.
At our first anniversary celebration, my wife publicly announced that she was divorcing me to marry her true love. My past mission targets coldly watched me, thinking I would cause a ruckus and trouble Ivan Lowe like I always had. However, I merely walked over to a nearby lake and jumped into it. Unbeknownst to them, Serena Gale was my very last mission target. If I failed, I was supposed to go home. So, why did they only begin to regret their choices after I finally died?
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