Lahat ng Kabanata ng Second Vows Of A Scorned Wife : Kabanata 21 - Kabanata 28

*Avina*I watched through the cold glass, my breath hitching every time Chloe moved. She looked so different without her "best friend" mask on. She looked bored, tossing her phone onto the cushions and leaning back with a sigh of relief.“Well, what do you think?”Daphne threw her a look of impatience. “That's not what I asked you.”Chloe sighed again and said with a scoff, “Of course she bought it. It's not like she's got any other choice.”Daphne's eyes narrowed. “And you didn't sense any weird off energy about her?”A frown pulled at Chloe's lips. “No, she still seemed like the same ol' naive Avina. It's just as if she keeps getting stupid as the day goes by.”I gripped the arms of my chair, my nails digging into the velvet. Daphne didn't look as if she believed that, her jaw working intently as she took another sip from the glass in her hand. Chloe stood and walked over to her. “Do you think she suspects anything about us?”“I just seem to think she knows more than she's letting

*Avina*When consciousness finally returned to me, it did so slowly, like something reluctant to surface. At first there was only warmth beneath my body and the faint, sterile smell of antiseptic filling the air every time I breathed in. My thoughts moved sluggishly, thick and distant, as if they had to push through layers of fog before reaching me. For a long moment I simply lay there with my eyes closed, listening to the quiet hum of something electrical somewhere above me.When my lashes finally lifted, the first thing I noticed was the ceiling.They were too white and too smooth.A strip of fluorescent light glowed faintly overhead, humming softly in a way that made the silence around it feel unnatural. I blinked slowly, trying to focus, but the brightness made my eyes water and I had to squint against it. Confusion crept into my mind as awareness began to settle in.This wasn’t my room.Or to be exact, this wasn't the room in the penthouse. The realization stirred uneasily in my

*Avina*I slowly broke away from Maria 2.0 and took some steps back. “What the hell is going on?“ I asked, my eyes swinging from one doppelganger to the other. The one I was previously hugging stepped forward, her hands stretched out and with a pleading look in her eyes. “Avina—”I threw up a finger, shushing her immediately. “I believe I just asked a question and I'm yet to receive an answer.”The other one who just entered sighed and crossed her arms over her chest. “Well, technically, you didn't actually ask any question.”My gaze swung over to her, my forehead scrunching up. “What?”She sighed again, walked over to the sofa and plopped down on it. “Like you've just seen… Yes, we are twins.““And why am I finding out about this now?”She pursed her lips, her shoulders lifting in a shrug. “Because you never really looked at us.“ She waved a hand down her body. “I am way taller than she is and our manner of speech differs too.“Now that she outrightly mentioned it, I couldn't help

*Ronan*I didn't take the elevator on my way down as I already figured it might take time. Instead, I took the stairs, my lungs burning as I cleared three flights at a time. I burst into the private parking lot, practically flung myself into my car and started it. The screech of my tires echoed against the concrete as I floored the accelerator and took off.The drive to the outskirts of the city should have taken forty minutes but I somehow did it in fifteen, my urgency fueled by the ever growing ball of panic in my chest. I zoomed past buildings, the city blurring into a streak of grey and glass. I didn't care about the speed traps or the cars I forced off the road. Everything and everyone else came second as it stands now. And soon enough, I turned into the long familiar road that led to my mansion but even the sight of it did nothing to ease the dread looming in the back of my head. My mansion was a secluded fortress, hidden behind ten-foot stone walls and a forest of ancient o