Calla's POV:The spoon trembled slightly in my hand as I stirred the untouched porridge on my plate.Breathe, Calla. Just breathe. Across the table, Madden scrolled through his phone, his jaw ticking with tension like always. He hadn’t looked at me yet. Thank God.My temples throbbed, my stomach coiled again, and I fought the urge to press a hand to it. The nausea had come and gone in waves all morning. I was woozy, barely grounded in my body. It felt wrong and right all at once. Alive, but not really here.I kept my eyes down.He couldn’t know.Not yet.Not when I wasn’t even sure myself. Not when the last time I had a child growing inside me, it was ripped from me by the woman who smiled in my face and slept in my bed like my friend.Petra. I lost my baby to her– I'm still coming for her by the way. Well, once I handle the mess I'm in. Wouldn't it been easy if I was transmigrated into the body of someone else? Someone who's not regarded as vile or cruel??I wouldn’t lose this one,
General POV:Bent over the toilet, Calla clutched the cold porcelain like a lifeline. Her hair stuck to her sweat-slicked forehead as she gasped for breath. The taste of bile clung stubbornly to her tongue, and the world tilted with vertigo.She couldn't stop puking all morning and it's been three days since the incident with Nyla.A knock came, and her heart skipped sickeningly.Is it Madden?? The last thing she wants right now is to be forced to go to a hospital. The dread she's been feeling all day refused to dissipate. Why is her body reacting strangely to even her perfume?Then the door creaked open. “Ma’am?” a gentle voice floated in. It was Margot, the oldest maid, the only one who ever looked at her like she was human and not the infamous Isadora. They've become really close, In fact, her relationship with the maids have improved. They seem to like her. Well , only two maids.That tension when she's around them is gone.“Don’t,” Calla croaked, waving her hand. “I’m fine.”“You
General POV:.The ride home was silent.The engine hummed beneath them, but neither spoke. Madden’s hand gripped the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles turned white. His eyes flicked to the rearview mirror every few seconds like he needed to see her. To confirm she was still there. Because what the fuck? She nearly died.But shouldn't that be a relief? Her death? A month ago Madden would've appreciated this. Heck.. he'd have watched it. But now? No way in hell.Isadora Kane has changed… and goodness, it's tearing him apart. And it all started when he met her at the club. It's as if she was switched or something. She kept asking weird questions, looking frazzled and lost.What's really going on?Calla sat beside him, unaware of his turmoil. Her knees pulled to her chest, arms wrapped tightly around her body. She was shaking as her thoughts veered to Lucas every second. She couldn't stop thinking about that night… the one where her lungs had burned, where the world had gone black,
Calla's POV:She smiled, then kissed the gun delicately like a treasured thing. The woman standing in front of me looked unhinged, not like the meek Nyla the world knew. U heart pounded with rage at being in such a tight spot. I stared at her, the edges of my vision blurring with panic. “You weren’t kidnapped, were you?” I had to ask.Her expression shifted. “No,” she said, eyes sparkling with a cruel kind of pride. “I came back to spy. To see if he was still mine. If he missed me. If you had finally crumbled.”Suddenly, pieces snapped together.The figure at the mall!! I was right – someone was following me! And then, I remember something else.The packet left behind on the volcano hike. So it was Nyla's.“You,” I whispered. “That was you.”That was you– you sick bitch!Nyla tilted her head, hair falling like a curtain around her face, ignoring my words. “You looked so happy in the photos,” she spat. “Hiking with Madden and laughing like you had the right. Like you earned him. But he
Calla's POV:I shouldn’t have come here. But Isa acts thoughtlessly and recklessly and since I'm forever trapped in her damn body, I'll have to act like this bad bitch.Against all reasonable judgement, I have to do this.Everything in me screamed that this wasn’t just an apology, but still, I stood in the middle of the forest clearing, with the cold dampness soaking into my shoes, waiting. I need to understand what's really happening. Finally, like a shadow peeled off the trees, Nyla emerged.Her eyes shimmered like glass, and for once, she looked like someone unraveling. Disheveled and Hollow. “I’m glad you came,” she said softly, brushing a strand of hair from her face. Her fingers trembled. “I’ve been thinking… maybe if we just talked—really talked—I could make you understand.”I stared at her, arms folded. “Talk, then.”A soft laugh escaped her lips, and her eyes suddenly filled with something ancient. Hurt? Rage? I don't know, but it was something far too heavy for someone so
GENERAL POV:The entire place was destroyed.Lamps lay shattered across the floor. Pillows were gutted, their stuffing spilling like torn flesh. The mattress had been slashed straight down the middle, the foam curling out like wounds. Above the dresser, the mirror was smeared with something dark, and on the far wall, in jagged, trembling strokes, a name was carved deep into the paint.ISADORA.Calla froze at the threshold, her breath catching in her throat.Her name. Her damn name.The blood wasn’t just a smear, it was a message. A goddamn warning.Her knees buckled and she staggered back, grabbing the edge of a side table for balance. “What the hell—”Madden crashed in behind her seconds later, his shirt still half-buttoned, breath ragged. His eyes scanned the chaos too , his jaw tightening with every step.“Fuck,” he muttered under his breath, stepping over a shattered lamp.Who on earth did this? Well, he got his answers as his eyes landed on a small silver object in the center o