LOGINEthan’s POVI couldn’t breathe.I couldn’t move.I couldn’t even tell if I was awake.All I could hear was Bella screaming my name somewhere far away.“ETHAN!”I tried to answer her.“Bella!”My voice disappeared into the darkness.Then I heard a baby’s cry.It was soft at first.Almost distant.Then it became louder.And louder.Until it was the only thing I could hear.I opened my eyes.I was standing inside a room filled with glass.There were machines everywhere.Wires.Screens.Tubes.Monitors.And in the middle of the room was a small glass chamber.Inside it was a baby.Me.I stared at him.“No.”I stepped closer.The baby was sleeping.Tiny.Completely helpless.A small tube ran beside his nose.There was a name printed on the glass.SUBJECT THREE.I touched the glass.My hand went straight through it.I stepped backward.“What is this?”A voice answered behind me.“You.”I turned.Amelia stood there.But she looked younger.Much younger.Her hair was darker.Her face wasn’t t
Bella’s POVThe darkness felt different this time.It wasn’t the normal kind of darkness where you simply couldn’t see.This darkness felt alive.It felt like something was watching us.I could still feel Ethan’s hand in mine.Three squeezes.I’m here.You’re safe.I won’t leave you.I squeezed his hand back.Three times.I’m here.You’re safe.I won’t leave you.Neither of us spoke.Then I heard a sound.A soft click.I looked up.A single light appeared above us.It illuminated Ethan’s face.He looked terrified.Not because of the darkness.Because of what we had just seen.ONE OF THEM WILL HAVE TO DIE.I swallowed.“Ethan.”“I know.”“What if it’s real?”He looked at me.“Then we’ll find another way.”“But what if there isn’t another way?”“There is.”“How do you know?”“Because I refuse to believe that our entire lives were created just to end like this.”I stared at him.“You’re really stubborn.”He gave me a small smile.“You knew that already.”Despite everything, I laughed.It
Bella’s POV“Ethan?”My voice echoed through the room.Nothing.I turned around again.He was gone.One second he had been standing right in front of me, holding my hand.The next, there was nothing.Just the cold floor beneath my feet.Just the red walls.Just the girl who looked exactly like me.She was standing several feet away, watching me with tears running down her face.I couldn’t move.“Where is he?”She didn’t answer.I stepped toward her.“Where is Ethan?”“He’s remembering.”My heart dropped.“Remembering what?”“Everything.”I shook my head.“No. He can’t remember everything.”“Why?”“Because he told me he couldn’t.”She looked at me sadly.“He couldn’t before.”“What changed?”“You did.”I frowned.“What does that mean?”She walked closer.“You woke him up.”“I didn’t do anything.”“You loved him.”I stared at her.“That doesn’t explain anything.”“It explains everything.”I wanted to argue, but something inside me told me she was right.Ethan had always been different a
Noah’s POVThe screaming stopped.That was somehow worse.I stood in the darkness, staring at the place where Ethan had disappeared.I could still hear his last words in my head.Don’t trust me.I had heard those words before.Not from Ethan.From myself.A long time ago.Before Bella remembered me.Before I remembered the laboratory.Before I understood that some memories were not supposed to belong to anyone.“Turn the lights back on,” Eli said.Nobody answered.“Turn them on!”His voice echoed through the hallway.Then a small red light appeared above us.One by one, the emergency lights came alive.I looked around.Bella was gone.Ethan was gone.Eli was standing beside the strange girl who looked exactly like Bella.And Amelia was nowhere to be seen.I swallowed.“Where is Bella?”Eli turned toward me.“I don’t know.”“You were with her.”“So were you.”“I wasn’t.”“You were supposed to be.”I frowned.“What does that mean?”Eli looked at the girl.She didn’t say anything.I step
Eli’s POVI woke up to someone screaming.Not a normal scream.It was the kind of scream that made every part of your body react before your brain could even understand what was happening.I opened my eyes.“Ethan?”Nothing.I pushed myself up from the cold floor and immediately looked around.Bella was gone.Ethan was gone.The red room was gone.I was back inside the underground facility.The emergency lights were flashing above me.Red.Black.Red.Black.My head was pounding.I touched the side of my face and felt blood.“What happened?”Then I heard footsteps.I quickly stood.“Who’s there?”The footsteps stopped.A girl stepped out from the darkness.I froze.She looked like Bella.Exactly like Bella.But she wasn’t Bella.I knew that because Bella had always looked at me like she was trying to understand me.This girl looked at me like she already knew everything.“Eli,” she whispered.My stomach dropped.“How do you know my name?”She smiled sadly.“Because I knew you before y
Bella’s POVFor a few seconds, nobody moved.Nobody breathed.Nobody even seemed to remember that we were standing in the middle of an underground laboratory that was slowly falling apart.I only stared at Ethan.He was standing a few feet away from me, completely frozen.His eyes were open, but they didn’t look normal.They looked empty.Like he was watching something that none of us could see.“Ethan?”Nothing.I took one careful step toward him.“Ethan, look at me.”His eyes finally moved.They found mine.And for the first time since I had met him, I saw something in his expression that terrified me.Guilt.Not confusion.Not fear.Guilt.Like he had just remembered the worst thing he had ever done.I shook my head.“No.”He swallowed.“Bella…”“No.”“I remember.”My heart started beating faster.“Remember what?”He looked away.“I betrayed you.”The words hit me harder than I expected.I laughed nervously.“That doesn’t make sense.”“It does.”“No, it doesn’t.”“I remember.”“The
Bella POVThe moment Clara stepped into the celebration grounds, it felt like the entire atmosphere shifted in a way that was impossible to ignore, because the warm laughter and cheerful conversations that had been filling the air just moments ago suddenly quieted into soft whispers and curious gla
Bella POVThe next two weeks passed in a way that felt strange to me.For the first time in three years of marriage, Ethan was actually living in the house with me.Sometimes when I woke up in the morning, I would see his shoes by the door or his jacket hanging on the chair in the living room, and
Bella POVI had just finished arranging the jars of herbs in the small medicine cabinet in my room when my phone suddenly rang on the table beside me.For a moment I simply stared at the screen without moving, because Ethan’s name was flashing across it.My heart immediately started beating faster.
Bella POVAt that exact moment, his phone suddenly rang.The sound broke the heavy silence in the room.Ethan glanced at the screen and immediately answered the call.His voice softened slightly when he spoke.“Hello?”A familiar female voice echoed faintly from the phone speaker.“Ethan,” Clara sa







