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Prove It

Chapter Sixty OneJulian’s POV“Aria, listen to me.”Her body is trembling so hard against me that I feel it in my bones. Her head jerks toward the voice at the end of the hall, the voice that just condemned me with four words.You just shot the wrong man.My teeth clench so hard I taste copper.I’ve fought wars with less rage in my chest.She tilts her face up at me. Those wide hazel eyes, the ones that undo me, are full of something I’ve never seen before when she looks at me. Not trust. Not even anger.It’s doubt.I swear I feel something inside me fracture.“You know me,” I say, low, fierce, willing her to hear past the chaos. “Don’t let him get in your head.”Her lips part. She doesn’t speak.I don’t blame her. Because even I can hear it, that voice at the end of the hall sounds too much like mine.The other me keeps coming, slow, deliberate. He doesn’t limp, doesn’t flinch. The perfect predator.And the bleeding bastard on the floor just laughs, his crimson smile splitting wider

Into the Dark

Chapter Sixty TwoJulian’s POVDarkness crashes in like a wave, thick, suffocating, absolute.The overhead lights snap off with a fizz and hum, leaving us buried in black silence. No glow from emergency strips. No red security strobes. Nothing.Just breathing. Mine, harsh and ragged. Aria’s, too shallow and fast.And his somewhere in front of us. Laughing.“Aria,” I breathe, fingers closing tighter around her wrist. “Don’t move.”My other hand goes to my belt. I still have the blade. But I need my eyes. I need to see.Footsteps echo, left? Right? Impossible to track. The dark warps everything.Aria’s grip tightens on me. She’s trembling again, but not like before. This isn’t fear. This is something more primal. A panic I can feel crawling under her skin.I pull her behind me as I inch forward, back to the wall. The corridor smells of blood, smoke, and adrenaline.And then, his voice.“You really think you can keep her safe in here? Blind? Slower than me? You’ve never been good at losi

The Mirror Lies

Chapter Sixty ThreeAria’s POVThe world returned in fragments.First, the weight. My body was slumped in a chair, wrists cold and bound behind me. My head pounded like someone had cracked it open and poured in static. My mouth tasted of metal and dust.Second, the light. Dim. Fluorescent. Flickering like it couldn’t decide whether to stay on or die completely.And third, silence. Thick, humming silence. No footsteps. No Julian. Just me… and her.She was sitting across from me.My face. My body. My mouth. Every detail identical down to the tiny scar on my eyebrow from falling off the monkey bars when I was six.But her posture wasn’t mine. She sat rigid, like a statue sculpted from ice and precision. Her head tilted, studying me like I was the anomaly. Not her.“What is this?” My voice cracked, but it still sounded stronger than I felt.She smiled. A slow, almost sympathetic curve of lips.“You woke up faster than expected,” she said, her tone smooth, calculated. “That’s impressive.”

Ashes Don’t Obey

Chapter Sixty FourAria’s POVThe moment the door hissed shut, silence didn’t return.There was a high-pitched hum, a mechanical heartbeat beneath the surface of the room. It pulsed through the floor, through the metal table, into my spine like a warning. The overhead lights flickered again, and I swore the shadows were breathing.Focus, Aria.My wrists throbbed, the zip cuffs cutting off circulation. I shifted slightly, pain lanced through my shoulder where they’d hit me with something earlier, but it grounded me. Pain was real. Pain was mine.A cloned face couldn’t steal that.I tested the restraints again. No give.They hadn’t underestimated me. That was almost flattering.Almost.My eyes scanned the room. It looked like an interrogation chamber, sterile with glass-paneled walls, and a single vent high in the ceiling. Too small for a body. No sharp corners, nothing on the table except the imprint of my own sweat and fear. The screen on the wall was dark now, but I knew what it had

Lure of the Familiar

Chapter Sixty FiveJulian’s POVThere was something off about the silence.It wasn’t the kind of silence that settled naturally, like fog over a sleeping city. This one was engineered, calculated. The deeper I moved into the corridor of the hidden Initiative complex, the more it felt like the building itself was holding its breath.My boots echoed too cleanly. No guards. No cameras blinking red at the corners. It screamed trap, but I couldn’t turn back.Not when Aria was somewhere inside.I touched the comm in my ear again, but it still buzzed with static. They’d jammed signals as soon as I crossed the threshold. Not surprising.Still, I had trained for worse.What I hadn’t trained for… was how it felt to think of her in pain.Every step I took felt like walking through fire. If they’d hurt her, if they’d touched her, I didn’t know what version of myself would be left when I found her.The old Julian might’ve made rational calls. Calculated risks. But that version was buried beneath t

Mistaken Touch

Chapter Sixty SixAria’s POVThe door slammed shut behind me like the final note in a funeral dirge.I stood frozen, adrenaline howling through my bloodstream, staring at them.Julian’s hands had just been on her. His lips, his mouth, on her.Her, who looked like me. Sounded like me. Moved like me.But wasn’t me.The clone smirked at me from across the room, eyes gleaming like the monster she was. She didn’t even flinch when Julian spun around, instinctively pulling his weapon, but it was too late.She pressed the trigger to her chest.A red beeping began, vibrating through the floor.“Too late,” she whispered again, smug, as if she’d already won.The room dimmed, red lights blinking to life in the corners, syncing with the pulse of the detonation countdown.Ten seconds.Julian cursed. “MOVE!”He reached for me, but I stepped back.My body shook, not from the threat of the explosion, but from the sight of him.His jaw was clenched. His brows drawn tight in panic. But I saw it. I saw

The Room of Truths

Chapter Sixty SevenAria’s POVThe click of the lock was subtle, too soft for the weight it carried.I turned back, heart pounding, only to find the smooth metal door behind me had vanished. Seamless wall. No handle. No exit.Just me. Alone.Or so I thought.The room was circular. Walls paneled in reflective black glass, like obsidian. No shadows. No sound. The air felt… artificial. Like it had been manufactured just for me.I took one step and the lights shifted.A cool, pulsing blue filled the space. Then, from somewhere overhead, a voice:“Tell me, Aria, what is truth, when all you’ve ever known are lies?”It wasn’t her voice. Not the clone. This one was… male. Deeper. More theatrical.I spun, eyes scanning for surveillance lenses, hidden panels, anything.Nothing.Then the floor beneath me shimmered, and the space twisted.Suddenly, I wasn’t in the black room anymore.I was in Julian’s penthouse.The memory slammed into me so hard, I forgot to breathe.The way his shirt had hung o

The Reflection’s Lies

Chapter Sixty EightAria’s POVThe echo of the locker door clanging shut lingers in my chest.I spin around.The hallway is empty. Cold, black mirrors line every wall. No shadows. No light. Just me, alone.The air hummed, charged as if the walls themselves held their breath.And then the glass rippled.A figure stepped out.Julian.My Julian.His eyes found mine, steady and warm, but the air around him was wrong, fractured.Behind him, the actual Julian’s reflection stared too. Yet watching him was impossible. It felt like his reflection wanted to be him.I knelt on the floor, lungs burning as blood roiled through me.“Wha..”“I know,” said the Julian standing before me. Voice cold. Controlled.“Not real.”My heart seized. Hunted me with fear.Footsteps behind me. I turned, only to find another Julian stepping out. The real one, pressed against the mirrored wall, confusion chasing pain in his eyes.The imposter, closer. Not mirrored. Planed and sharpened.He held something between us:

Doppelgänger

Chapter Sixty NineJulian’s POVThe alarm pierced the silence like a blade, red lights strobing along the ceiling, making the whole chamber pulse like a beating heart. My grip on Aria’s wrist tightened.“Run!” I snapped, dragging her out of the chamber as the sound of metal sliding and locks disengaging echoed behind us.She didn’t ask questions. Her body moved with mine, feet slamming against the floor, hair trailing like fire behind her in the crimson light. I didn’t dare look back, not yet.We burst into the hallway, the metal door screeching as it tried to close behind us.Aria glanced over her shoulder, breathless. “Julian… what was that?”“I don’t know. But if that thing wakes up and walks out of that pod, we’re screwed.”She looked at me. “You said they were experimenting. You didn’t say they were cloning you.”I didn’t say anything. Because I didn’t believe it, couldn’t believe it, until I saw my own face open its eyes from inside a glass coffin.And it smiled at her.That was

Beneath the Silence

Chapter Seventy Aria’s POVThe silence in the safe house was loud.He sat across from me, Julian, or the man who wore his face like it was his own. The fire crackled softly between us, shadows dancing across the planes of his expression. Every inch of him screamed familiarity, the way his hand curved around the chipped mug, the soft scrape of his boot against the wooden floor, the low hum of his voice when he said my name.But something inside me refused to rest.My body was taut, my pulse quick. I could feel the electric current of uncertainty under my skin, crawling, whispering.“You haven’t said much,” he murmured, his voice the same deep register that used to lull me to sleep. “Not since we got back.”I set the tea down, hands trembling slightly. “Maybe I’m still processing. A lot happened back there.”He nodded slowly. “We made it out. That’s what matters.”Is it?I wanted to scream. I wanted to cry. I wanted to throw myself into his arms and tell him I missed him, that I was so

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