Lahat ng Kabanata ng Daddy's Little Secret : Kabanata 101 - Kabanata 110

Melissa’s POVI floated in darkness, my mind a jumble of fragmented thoughts. Jamal's face swam in front of me, his eyes filled with fear and confusion. What was happening? Why couldn't I move? Why couldn't I think?The darkness pulsed around me, a living, breathing thing. It seeped into my pores, filling me with a cold, calculating logic. I tried to scream, but my voice was trapped, frozen in my throat.As the darkness receded, I found myself standing in a familiar place...my childhood home but it was different. The walls were cracked, the furniture was broken and the air was thick with the stench of decay.A figure emerged from the shadows. It was me... my reflection, my twin, my... what? I stared at her, transfixed. She smiled, and it was like looking into a mirror."Who are you?" I whispered, my voice barely audible.She tilted her head, her eyes gleaming with amusement. "I'm you, Melissa. I'm the part of you that's been sleeping. The part that's been waiting.""Waiting for what?"

Melissa’s POVI walked through the complex, my mind a maze of conflicting emotions. I remembered Jamal, I remembered our life together, but it was like looking at a photograph – it was real, but it wasn't mine.The duplicate's voice echoed in my mind, "You're not Melissa, you're a copy, a replica." I shook my head, trying to clear the thoughts. I was Melissa, I was real.As I walked, I saw Layla, her eyes cold and calculating. She was working on something, her hands moving with precision."Layla?" I said, my voice hesitant.She looked up, her eyes narrowing. "Melissa, what are you doing here?"I shrugged, feeling a sense of unease. "I don't know, I just... woke up, I guess."Layla's expression softened, and she took a step closer. "It's okay, Melissa, you're safe now. You're with us."Us? What did she mean by that? I felt a shiver run down my spine as I realized that I was trapped, trapped in a world where I didn't know what was real and what wasn't.I pulled back, trying to process e

Jamal’s POVThe moment Melissa disappeared behind that reinforced door, the room felt colder. Too quiet. Too expectant. Like the air itself knew something I didn’t.I stared at the cameras overhead.“Open the door,” I said.The intercom crackled.“Access denied.”I clenched my jaw.“Override. Jamal Idris. Priority code: N-Nine-Alpha-Seven.”Another crackle.“Code rejected.”My blood chilled.That code was mine. No one should’ve been able to disable it.I turned to Layla, who sat casually on the opposite end of the lab, legs crossed, as if this wasn’t a crisis.“What did you do?” I demanded.She didn’t even flinch.“You mean...what did you do?” she asked.“Layla, don’t start. Not now.”She tilted her head, studying me like a specimen under glass.“Funny. That’s exactly what I was going to say to you.”I took a slow step toward her.“Where is she?”“She’s right behind that door.”“Alive?”Layla shrugged.“Define alive.”My fists clenched.“Layla”“Don’t look at me like that, Jamal.” Her

Jamal’s POVThe blast hit like a grenade of light. One second Melissa was in front of me; the next, she was swallowed by the duplicate’s glowing hands.“No—NO!” I lunged forward, but Layla grabbed my arm.“Jamal, STOP!”“Let go of me!”“You’ll get vaporized!”I ripped my arm free anyway, took two steps into the blinding white and slammed into something solid. A barrier. Energy. A wall of humming power.“Melissa!” I pounded on it. “MELISSA, answer me!”Nothing but the crackle of electricity and the low, vibrating hum of the vault system being eaten alive.Layla cursed under her breath. “She’s reconfiguring the entire vault into a closed circuit. She’s isolating them. Them.”I spun on her. “What does that mean? Talk. Fast.”“It means the duplicate is linking herself to Melissa through a direct neural tether. She’s trying to merge minds. Maybe overwrite. Maybe combine.” Layla’s voice dropped. “Maybe erase.”A cold wave rolled up my spine. “No. No, she wouldn’t”“She literally said she wa

Jamal’s POVThe Fracture Point“Melissa—NO!”My fingers scraped empty air as the platform swallowed her whole in a flash of white. I lunged again, reaching for light that was already gone. The chamber roared, the walls splitting, blue circuits sparking like veins under breaking skin.“Melissa!” I shouted into the ripping void. “Answer me!”Nothing.Just that ringing emptiness.A wave of raw fury tore through me. “WHERE DID YOU TAKE HER?!”The shattered blue fragments of the entity hovered like dust motes in a storm. Slowly—too slowly—they pulled themselves together, flickering in and out like a busted projection.Even half-formed, it tried to speak.“You were not meant to force entry,” it said, voice glitching.I grabbed it by its flickering collar, even though my hands passed through sparks. “Bring her back.”“Impossible.”“I said—” I slammed my fist into the floor. The chamber shook like I had punched its core. “BRING. HER. BACK.”The entity flickered harder. “She has entered synchr