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The Heavy Cracks

Author: Fay Manual
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-01 02:10:01

Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Three

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Two days.

That’s all I have left in this house before I’m expected back at the academy.

And my duplicate… hasn’t returned.

I stood by the window, fingers pressed to the cold glass, my heart pounding like a war drum. The bond between us is still there but faint now, stretched thin, but still there. I can feel her: the thrill of her mischief, the way she lingers near Jason’s shadow just to feel the echo of us.

But she’s not coming back yet.

She is not willing to yet.

And if I leave without recalling her…

There will be two Arias.

And there will be problems because the world was not built to hold two of me.

The knock comes again,softer this time, but laced with venom.

I didn’t answer as usual.

The door swung open anyway.

My stepmother stood in the doorway, silk robe draped over her shoulders, lips painted red, eyes sharp with contempt. She refused to come inside. She just leaned against the frame like she owned the air in my lungs.

“Your father tol
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