Chapter 1

Scarlett had an affair with a married man and ended up pregnant.

She had no job, no savings, so I tried to convince her not to keep the baby.

But she insisted, saying she believed in destiny and that aborting the baby would ruin her karma and affect her future luck.

But when the baby was born, she dumped him on me to raise and went off to "see the world."

I spent half my life raising Logan, my nephew, all the way through to his college acceptance. And then, just like that, Scarlett came back!

She told Logan, "You don’t know this, but your Aunt Avery kept telling me to get rid of you when I was pregnant. And after you were born, she basically took you from me. You’re my flesh and blood—of course, I love you."

Logan hated me from that day on.

One day, Logan got into a car accident. I risked everything to push him out of the way, and I was hit, thrown nearly thirty feet.

As I lay dying, the nephew I had raised with so much love cradled my broken body and sneered softly, “You almost didn’t let me exist, then you kept me away from my mother for years, depriving me of her love. This life and whatever insurance payout you’ve left me—consider it your penance.”

A bright white light engulfed me, taking me back to the day Scarlett knocked on my door, her belly just beginning to show.

I opened my eyes to see her sitting in front of me, crying as she asked, “Avery, I have no one else. Should I keep this baby or not?”

I pulled a coin from my pocket and placed it in her hand. "Sis, you believe in destiny, don’t you? Let the universe guide you—flip it."