All Chapters of The Alpha Professor’s Cursed Mate : Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

TALIAEveryone says twins are inseparable, but all my life, I’ve felt like the shadow to Tessa’s sun. We were meant to be equal, but she got the spotlight, and I got… nothing.“Happy birthday to you…”Through the closed door of my room, I heard my parents singing, their voices off-key but very loud. They were obviously heading straight for Tessa’s room.I counted to five. Right on cue, her voice rang out, sounding surprised, as if this same ritual didn’t happen every single year.“Mum! Dad!” she squealed, clapping her hands. “You remembered!”“Of course we remembered,” my mother cried. “Happy birthday, sweetheart.”I rolled my eyes and dragged myself out of bed. There was no point in waiting around as they wouldn’t be stopping by my room. They never did. For years now, they had conveniently forgotten that Tessa and I shared a birthday.Last year, she got a brand-new phone. As an afterthought, I got her old one, the screen so cracked and scratched that I suspected she had smashed it on

TALIA“Why did you do that?!”My mother screamed at me, but her voice barely registered in my ears. I couldn’t stop reliving those moments after Ethan’s rejection. The way the crowd had jeered, how the students had laughed, phones recording every humiliating second. By now, the videos were probably everywhere.I had no memory of how I’d escaped. One moment I was drowning in a sea of humiliation; the next, I was curled up in the broom closet, crying in pain, tearing at my hair, praying the janitor wouldn’t come and make me leave.I had stayed there until the final bell rang and I had to come backNow I was home. But the torture wasn’t over, not even close.“I knew it the moment I woke up this morning,” my mother spat, her face red with anger. “Something told me you’d find a way to ruin Tessa’s birthday, and you did! You’ve ruined her entire day!”A loud crash sounded from upstairs, drowning her words. It was Tessa throwing a tantrum, and wrecking her room. Or maybe she was destroying