After finishing the last slice, I selected a suicide method from the system.
[Host, are you sure you want to choose this method?]
[This way of dying will be very painful. I suggest you reconsider.]
The system's mechanical voice warned me, but I ignored it and pressed the "confirm" button.
Once everything was done, I finally had time to check my phone. I found that the messages in the family group were still flooding the screen.
It was Agnes's eighteenth birthday and the Saint Family was throwing her a magnificent coming-of-age party.
For that event, Spencer canceled several surgeries to spend the entire day with her. Skyler even postponed his nationwide concert tour to sing her a birthday song.
But only Sawyer, lying in the hospital with a broken leg after being hit by my best friend's car, was still sending voice messages of regret. "River, please tell me where Kienna went. I'm begging you."
After listening to a few messages, I turned off my phone.
I threw the leftover cake into the trash and followed the system's guidance to the place where I'd end my life—Bexford Hospital.
Just as I reached the entrance, my phone rang.