ECHOES OF THE PAST
Ten years of love. Ten years of
loyalty. And it all ends with a knife
to her heart.
Aria devoted her youth to Evan — a
man who whispered forever but
only craved her body. When he
betrayed her for a rich heiress, she
thought heartbreak was the worst
pain she’d ever know… until the
night he tried to erase her from
existence.
But fate has a twisted sense of
mercy. Aria wakes up ten years
earlier, lying in the same bed with
the same man who will one day
destroy her. Only this time,
something’s different. Her body is
the same, but her mind has
changed — she can hear every
filthy, selfish thought inside his
head.
This isn’t a second chance at love.
This is a second chance at revenge.
Now, with beauty, brains, and a new
supernatural gift, Aria will play the
game better than he ever could.
She’ll make him fall, she’ll make him
beg… and she’ll burn everything he
ever wanted to the ground.
But as she walks the dangerous
path of vengeance, a mysterious
stranger enters her life — someone
who’s always been in the shadows,
waiting for her to remember him.
And his thoughts? Unlike the
others, she can’t read them at all…
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Chapter: THE GUARDIAN CONSULTANT "Three days. Barely enough time to prepare but they're moving fast because of the accelerated timeline intelligence." The news hit like physical impact. Three days until Damian deployed to Europe, leaving me and Elara home while he walked into Geneva's complex. First major separation since our reconciliation years ago. "This changes the infiltration plan," I said, trying to think tactically rather than emotionally. "If you're going officially as Guardian consultant, you can't participate in covert documentation operation. You'll be under surveillance, your movements monitored." "I won't be infiltrating," Damian confirmed. "I'll be providing legitimate oversight consultation while gathering intelligence that supports the actual infiltration team. Different role but complementary to the mission." "So you're bait. Official Guardian presence that distracts Geneva's attention while the real operation happens covertly." "Partially. But also legitimate intelligence gathering. Guar
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Chapter: OFFICIAL DEPLOYMENT"Promise." She seemed satisfied for the moment but that night I heard her crying softly in her room, processing emotions about Damian's deployment that she hadn't wanted to express directly. I sat with her in the darkness. "Daddy will come back. This is temporary." "I know but I can feel how dangerous it is. The place he's going, it's full of people who hurt children by trying to help them. What if they hurt him?" "Guardian training means he can protect himself and he's not going to do anything risky. Just observation and intelligence gathering." "Everything about Geneva is risky. Even the observation part. Because they don't want to be observed honestly. They'll try to show him fake things while hiding real things. And if he sees too much real stuff, they might not let him leave." Her perception was uncomfortably accurate. Geneva wouldn't permit thorough observation of controversial research. Damian would be navigating between official access and operational securit
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Chapter: PROMISEBy evening I was exhausted and more uncertain than ever about my qualifications. Everyone else seemed confident in their capabilities. I felt like an academic pretending to be operative. Damian found me reviewing Geneva facility layouts, trying to memorize routes and identify potential psychological assessment opportunities. "You're spiraling," he observed. "I'm preparing inadequately for situations that exceeds my expertise." "You're overthinking because you're scared. That's normal before dangerous operation but it doesn't mean you're actually inadequate." "Everyone else has supernatural abilities or tactical training. I have theoretical knowledge about psychological development that might not apply to consciousness network manipulation." "Everyone else also has blind spots you don't have. Enhanced individuals perceive consciousness but sometimes miss behavioral indicators. Tactical operatives focus on security but overlook psychological impacts. You see what they miss beca
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Chapter: PREPARATION AND DOUBT"You're overthinking it," Damian said, finding me at two a.m. surrounded by papers and incomprehension."I'm underprepared for it," I corrected. "Everyone else on the infiltration team has consciousness abilities. Enhanced perception that lets them sense threats I'll miss. I'm going to be a liability rather than an asset.""You're going to be the only person who understands what we're seeing from a psychological perspective. Consciousness specialists will document technical capabilities. You'll document human impact.""If I can even understand what I'm seeing. These protocols describe consciousness manipulation at levels I can't perceive anymore. How do I assess psychological harm from processes I can't directly observe?""The same way you've been doing it for two years. Through behavioral analysis, emotional assessment, therapeutic expertise. You don't need to perceive consciousness directly to identify when people are being damaged psychologically."He was right theoretically. Bu
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Chapter: MORE CONFIDENCEThe argument was compelling despite my resistance. I did know Elara's psychological development intimately. Her attachment patterns, her emotional regulation strategies, her responses to stress. A clone might replicate behaviors but would struggle to replicate the underlying psychological architecture that generated those behaviors. "I'll do the assessment," I agreed. "But I need complete access to all verification data. Consciousness scans, biometric readings, behavioral analysis, everything. I can't work with partial information." Guardian specialists began comprehensive testing while I reviewed Elara's developmental history. Medical records, therapeutic notes, school assessments, every documented interaction that revealed her psychological patterns. Elara submitted to testing with remarkable patience for a five year old. Consciousness mapping, memory verification questions, emotional response tasks. She sensed my terror but didn't ask about it directly. Just held my hand bet
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Chapter: THE UNEXPECTED EXPERT"I sent preliminary analysis," she said. "But there's something else. Something I couldn't put in a written document because it's too sensitive. Can we talk privately?" I put her on speaker with just Damian and Marcus present. "Go ahead." "Geneva isn't working alone on consciousness evolution project. They're coordinating with other facilities globally. Shanghai, Mumbai, Sydney, São Paulo. All conducting synchronized research toward same evolutionary objectives. Together they're creating distributed consciousness manipulation network that can't be stopped by eliminating any single facility." "How many facilities total?" I asked. "At least twelve major sites. Probably more smaller operations. All sharing research, all implementing Geneva's methodologies, all contributing to systematic consciousness cultivation on global scale." "That's the real scope," I realized. "Not just Geneva. Not just Chrysalis. Entire international network directing human consciousness evolution through
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STOLEN BY THE DON
He was a man made of sins.
She was the one mistake he couldn’t undo.
Luca Romano — the ruthless Don of the Romano crime family — has lived in the shadows for years, drowning in blood, money, and women. But beneath the armor of power lies a ghost he can’t escape: Serena, the girl who once saved his broken soul before vanishing without a trace.
Decades later, when Luca sees her again in a supermarket — the same eyes, the same delicate face — he loses control. Within hours, she’s in his mansion, locked away, his lost angel finally returned to him.
But she isn’t Serena.
She’s Sienna, Serena’s twin sister — the one thrown away, forgotten, and left to survive the streets.
Unlike her gentle twin, Sienna bites back. She curses him, fights him, and makes him question the monster he’s become.
“You think you own me, Don?” she spits.
“No, dolcezza,” he murmurs, pressing his thumb against her jaw. “I think I finally found the one woman who could destroy me.”
What begins as a twisted act of obsession turns into a war between them — a battle of wills, lust, and long-buried secrets. Because the more Luca learns about the woman he’s captured, the more he realizes:
He might have stolen the wrong twin, but he’s finally met his match.
And when the real Serena returns — sweet, innocent, and hiding a darkness he never imagined — Luca will discover the cruelest truth of all:
The angel he adored was a lie… and the devil he stole might be the only one who can save him.
“I thought you were my redemption,” he says.
“No,” she whispers. “I’m your reckoning.”
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Chapter: SERENA'S LIMITATIONS"That's honest," Serena corrected. "And it's the best I can offer. Brutal honesty about inevitable betrayal, delivered early enough that you can make an informed choice. Stay knowing what I am, or leave knowing you tried. Either way, you won't be able to say I deceived you."Sienna moved back to the bed, picking up the investigator's report, staring at her sister's handwritten notes choosing abandonment. "I should leave. I should walk out of this hospital and never come back, should choose myself the way you've always chosen yourself.""You should," Serena agreed. "It would be thye healthy choice. The self-protective choice. The choice that honors your own wellbeing over complicated sisterhood with a monster.""But?" Sienna prompted."But I hope you don't," Serena admitted. "I hope you're stupid enough to stay. Damaged enough to find honest monstrosity preferable to performed warmth. Desperate enough for a family that you'll accept a conditional connection over no connection.""Yo
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Chapter: THAT'S SICK"I didn't know I was performing," Serena said. "I was a baby, I was just trying to survive. Trying to be whatever they wanted so I could get out of the system. I didn't understand that being chosen meant you weren't."Sienna returned to the report, her vision blurring with tears she still refused to shed:"Current assessment: Subject is at high risk for homelessness upon aging out of foster care. Has minimal support system, no family connections, limited financial resources. Psychological evaluation suggests untreated attachment disorder and probable depression, though subject refuses counseling services.""Investigator's note: Subject appears to have internalized her abandonment/separation as personal failure. Multiple foster parents mentioned her saying things like "I wasn't good enough to keep" or "Something's wrong with me." Despite this, she demonstrates remarkable resilience and determination to build independent life through art.""Recommendation: Subject could benefit from
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Chapter: THE PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR'S REPORTSienna returned to the hospital the next afternoon, bringing flowers she'd impulsively bought from a street vendor. She felt ridiculous carrying them but what do you bring the sister who abandoned you and an empty hands felt worse?Serena was sitting up in bed, looking significantly stronger than yesterday. Her color had improved, and she'd managed to style her hair into something presentable. Even recovering from gunshot wounds, she couldn't help but curate her presentation."Flowers," Serena observed as Sienna entered. "How conventional. I half-expected you to bring a weapon to finish what Viktor started.""The thought crossed my mind," Sienna admitted, setting the flowers on the windowsill. "But murder feels like too much effort today.""Fair," Serena said. "How are you? Matteo said you've been staying at a hotel. Not eager to return to your apartment?""Viktor's men know where I live," Sienna said, settling into the chair beside the bed. "Matteo thought it was safer to stay mobi
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Chapter: ACTUAL HONESTY "So you protected their feelings?" Sienna asked incredulously. "I protected my position," Serena corrected. "I was seven years old, finally somewhere stable after god knows what happened before. I wasn't going to risk that stability by introducing complications. So when they asked if I had siblings, I said no. Simple lie, enormous consequences." "You were seven," Sienna said slowly. "You lied when you were seven to protect your adoption. But what about later? What about when you were seventeen, twenty, twenty-three? What about when you hired a private investigator and found me in Queens? Why keep lying then?" "Because by then it was part of my constructed identity," Serena said. "By then I'd built an entire life around being an only child, a singular orphan with a tragic backstory. Introducing a twin would have meant revealing I'd been lying for years. Would have meant admitting my entire identity was fabrication." "So you chose your false identity over your real sister,"
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Chapter: I NEED SPACESerena was quiet for a long moment, staring at the ceiling, clearly choosing her words carefully. "Because acknowledging you meant admitting I wasn't special. The Merchants adopted me only because they thought I was a singular orphan who needed rescue. If they'd known I had a twin who wasn't chosen, it would have complicated their narrative. Made them question why they chose one and not both." "That's actually painful," Serena corrected. "And now that I've said it, I want to take it back. I want to retreat into strategic detachment where feelings don't hurt but you asked for real, so there it is. I'm jealous and resentful and aware that I destroyed the parts of myself you kept intact. That's as real as I get." Sienna moved closer to the bed, studying her sister's face identical to her own but marked by different choices, different survival strategies, different sacrifices. "I'm sorry," Sienna said quietly. "For what?" Serena asked, genuinely confused. "For whatever
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Chapter: WHY DID YOU? Serena regained consciousness three days after the shooting.Sienna was in the hospital cafeteria when Matteo called with the news. She'd been spending her days splitting time between the hotel and the hospital, a strange limbo existence where she waited for her sister to either die or survive while avoiding the man she was trying to forget. Luca had kept his word, he didn't come to the hospital again, neither contact her nor intrude on her careful boundaries. Matteo provided updates on both Serena's condition and Viktor's movements. The threat had dissipated, Viktor's remaining men had fled the city after one of them was killed in the ambush, apparently deciding Serena wasn't worth the additional risk. "She's awake," Matteo said over the phone. "Asking for you. Well, asking if 'the other one' is still here. I think that means you." "The other one," Sienna repeated. "Charming. How is she?" "Weak, in pain, but lucid. Doctors say she'll make a full recovery. She's incredibly
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