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Chapter Thirteen: Two Faces of the Same Coin

Penulis: Zainab
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(Alessandro’s POV)

For a heartbeat, the world fractured. The grogginess from my collapse vanished, incinerated by a white-hot surge of adrenaline and disbelief. I stared at the man by the bar—a perfect, twisted reflection of myself—and a name I had buried ten years ago clawed its way out of a shallow grave in my memory.

Cassian.

My twin brother. The brother everyone, including myself, believed had perished in the fire that consumed our family. The brother whose volatile temper and cruel streak had been the secret shadow of my youth.

His face was mine, but it was a mask worn by a different soul. The angles were the same, the hair just as dark, but his eyes held a cold, predatory arrogance I had never possessed. The subtle differences I’d noticed in his movements earlier, which my mind had dismissed as my own fatigue, now screamed with horrifying clarity. The way he held his glass, the cadence of his voice, the soulless smirk—it was all wrong.

“Cassia
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