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096: The Girl Who Wasn’t Me

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The red emergency lights pulsed like a heartbeat.

Not hers. Not Echo’s.

The chamber itself.

Alive. Watching.

Lydia spun, her bare feet slick against the concrete as Echo lunged—not wild, not feral. Calculated.

She moved like someone who’d been trained to kill the original.

To replace her.

But Lydia didn’t stumble.

The mirrored wall cracked behind Lydia’s back as she slammed into it—Echo’s weight pressing forward like a memory made flesh.

They gripped each other’s wrists, identical hands, trembling with strain.

Not fear. Not hesitation.

Just tension.

Years of it.

Lydia’s breath was sharp, ragged. Echo’s was smooth, almost serene.

“You were made to survive,” Echo whispered, twisting her grip, lips close enough to taste Lydia’s breath. “But I was made to replace.”

Lydia bared her teeth. “Then why haven’t you?”

Echo’s smile was devastatingly calm. “Because I was waiting for you to become me.”

A grunt escaped Lydia’s throat as Echo spun her, slamming her back into the steel exam table. Col
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