I Let Him Get AIDS: A Reborn Queen’s Sweetest Revenge Novel – I never truly understood what Luna Brooks meant by “in sickness and in health” until the day my boyfriend held his positive HIV test in his trembling hands. In my past life, when my boyfriends Ethan Campbell collapsed from severe anemia, his childhood friend Luna insisted on donating blood for him. I fought desperately to stop it, warned him she had AIDS, begged him to see reason. He refused to listen. Luna cried her pretty tears, swore she’d never even kissed a boy, and ran to the rooftop to prove her innocence with a dramatic leap.
But she slipped, a tragic accident and fell eighteen stories to her death. To avenge her, Ethan and our classmates kidnapped me during my own birthday party. He looked me in the eyes as he strangled me. “Your lies killed Luna,” he snarled. “Now you’ll pay with your life.” When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day of the transfusion. I watched as Luna’s blood flowed into Ethan’s veins, and I smiled. Just AIDS. It’s fine. *** “Chloe, back off. I know you hate me, but Ethan could die. Just let me help him.” Hearing those words from Luna Brooks, it hit me like a thunderclap. I had been reborn.
I looked up and met the displeased gaze of my boyfriend, Ethan Campbell. His face was pale from anemia. “Chloe, you’re too selfish to give blood yourself… fine. But now you’re getting in Luna’s way while she’s trying to save me? What was I thinking, falling for someone as nasty as you?” His insult sent a chill through my heart. In my past life, Ethan had collapsed from anemia during the National Academic Championship. The emergency blood supply from the bank would take too long to arrive. To not delay the competition, Luna, who pretty much everyone liked, volunteered to donate.
I had fought like hell to stop her. Because I had once overheard her talking to some street thugs in an alley. “I’ve got HIV,” she’d whispered, a twisted smile on her lips. “Once Ethan has it too… he’ll be mine forever. We’ll be together forever.” I rushed to stop Luna and told Ethan her blood carried the virus. Not only did he not believe me, he accused me of deliberate slander. Luna burst into tears on the spot, crying about how I was smearing her name. She said she would jump off a building to prove her innocence. While pretending to jump, she slipped and plummeted from the rooftop. Later, the autopsy confirmed her blood was teeming with the virus.
I thought that was the end of it. But on my birthday, Ethan and our classmates kidnapped me. I could still remember his words as he choked the life out of me, “You killed Luna with your lies! Now you’re going to pay for it!” Snapping back to the present, the insults from my classmates continued to buzz in my ears.
“God, Chloe, you’re disgusting. Ethan could pass out any second, and you won’t lift a finger. Now you’re stopping Luna, too? Unbelievable.” “For real. Luna’s, like, perfect, pretty and actually nice. What do you even have going for you?” “She’s just jealous because everyone actually likes Luna. So pathetic.” This time, I took a deep breath, steadied my racing heart, and stepped aside from the transfusion area.
A faint smile touched my lips. “Go ahead,” I said, my voice cool. “If 400cc isn’t enough, make it 600. Wouldn’t want to hold up Ethan’s treatment.” The bitter fruit they had sown, they would now taste for themselves.