Chapter 3

At Valerie's celebration party, Matthew went out of his way to pull some strings and invited a bunch of big shots from the industry.

These were the very connections I'd begged him to introduce me to, but he'd always turned me down.

All Valerie had to do was bat her eyelashes and act cute, and she got everything I'd ever dreamed of.

Life really wasn't fair. But what right did someone like me, a dead person, have to compete with the living?

It was nothing but humiliating myself.

As the party was buzzing, someone cluelessly mentioned my name.

The lively…