Introduction

My experimental cure for a degenerative neurological disease had a bizarre requirement: "positive emotional resonance."

Love was a luxury my family never afforded me.

My twin Jessica, my parents David and Linda, and even my husband Mark, bled me dry, taking credit for my genius.

The Phoenix Foundation announced my therapy was failing: seven days until my death.

Still, they demanded more.

Parents needed me to fix Jessica's buggy app for a funding round.

Mark required elaborate legal strategies for his career.

My talent, always theirs.

My head throbbed, my body failing, but they saw only annoyance, demanding I work.

Jessica feigned illness, then brazenly demanded IP rights to my groundbreaking app.

Mark, dismissing my imminent death as "dramatics," framed me for Jessica' s hit-and-run, securing my forced committal-a painful death sentence.

He even injected me with a lethal dose.

My ultimate betrayal came when Jessica brutally attacked me with shears, and Mark, seeing my bleeding face, still prioritized her comfort.

Lying there, bleeding and abandoned, a cold clarity dawned: they would never change.

My life, a relentless sacrifice, was ending in torment.

Why did they always break me, only to demand more?

But then, a whisper from the Foundation: "Protocol transition."

"Karmic Retribution Resonance."

Not death, but a second chance.

Not for love, but for their regret.

I would become Anna Hayes, an architect of their downfall, finally taking back what was mine.