All Chapters of I Died Once to Become Her Nightmare: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

"Come home, Elena."The voice echoed through the darkness.Elena froze.She knew that voice.It sounded exactly like her.Not similar.Not close.Exactly.Her mother grabbed her arm."Don't answer."Elena swallowed."Why?""Because it wants you to."Adrian stepped between them.His silver eye glowed faintly in the darkness."She's right."Elena looked at him."You heard it too?""I've been hearing it for years."A light flickered above them.Then another.The room slowly came back into view.But something had changed.The photographs on the wall were gone.The desk was empty.Even the memory device had disappeared.Elena looked around."Where did everything go?"Adrian's expression hardened."The Observer."Marcus checked the room."That isn't possible."Adrian looked at him."Nothing is impossible anymore."A soft laugh came from somewhere behind Elena.She turned quickly.Nobody was there.Then the voice whispered again."Elena."This time, it sounded frightened.Not threatening.Fr

"Now we have to decide which one of us gets to live."Elena stared at the woman beneath the machine.For several seconds, she couldn't speak.The room was enormous, far larger than anything she had expected to find beneath Virelli Tower. Glass chambers stretched into the darkness on both sides, each containing a sleeping body connected to thin cables.The sight made her stomach turn."What do you mean?" Elena finally asked.The woman looked at her."I mean there can only be one primary consciousness."Elena glanced at the chambers."And the others?""They become memories.""Whose memories?"The woman smiled sadly."Yours."Elena took a step backward."No.""It's already happening."The machine behind the woman hummed louder.A faint pulse moved through the floor.Elena felt it inside her chest.She pressed a hand against her heart."What are you doing to me?""I'm not doing anything."The woman shook her head."The core is recognizing you."Adrian moved toward Elena."Stay away from t

Elena stared at the staircase.Darkness waited beneath it.The old man's voice still echoed through the chamber."Come down, Elena."Her mother's face had lost all color.For the first time since Elena had known her, she looked genuinely terrified.Not worried.Not nervous.Terrified.Elena slowly turned toward her."That's my grandfather?"Her mother couldn't answer."Mom."Still nothing.Elena stepped closer."Is he alive?"Her mother finally looked at her."Yes."The word was barely audible.Elena's chest tightened."You told me he died.""I know.""You told me he died before I was born.""I know.""You lied to me."Her mother's eyes filled with tears."I was trying to keep you away from him."Elena looked toward the staircase."You failed."A deep sound came from below.Something metallic.Then the lights along the staircase turned on one by one.A path downward.Inviting them.Waiting for them.Adrian stepped beside Elena."We don't have to go down there."Elena looked at him."Y

The words echoed through the room."Now it's our turn."Elena stood completely still.Her silver eyes glowed in the darkness.Hundreds of voices whispered through the tower, overlapping until they became one deep, unsettling sound.Her grandfather stared at her.For the first time, there was no confidence in his expression.Only fear."No," he whispered.Elena tilted her head."You said that already."Her voice sounded different.Not completely different.It was still Elena.But there was something beneath it.Something older.Something that had been waiting for years.Her father took a cautious step forward."Elena."She turned toward him.He stopped."Don't come any closer."Her father swallowed."Can you hear me?""Yes.""Is it really you?"Elena looked at her hands."I don't know."Her fingers trembled.Then she looked at him."But I remember everything."Her father closed his eyes."I'm sorry."Elena's expression hardened."Don't.""I should have told you.""You should have prote

The doors slammed shut.The sound echoed through the underground chamber.Elena stood frozen.Across the glass, the other girl was still smiling.Same face.Same eyes.Same scar.Same voice.It was like looking at a photograph of herself that had somehow learned how to breathe.Adrian stepped in front of Elena."Stay behind me."The younger Elena laughed."Still protecting her?"Adrian froze.Elena looked at him."You know her?"He slowly shook his head."No."The girl smiled wider."You do."Adrian's expression changed."That's impossible.""Is it?"She placed her palm against the glass."You were there."Adrian stared at her."Where?""The night I died."Elena's heart dropped.She stepped around Adrian."What did you just say?"The younger girl looked directly at her."I died too."Elena felt the air leave her lungs."You died?""Yes.""When?"The girl tilted her head."The same night you did."Elena stared."Then who are you?"The girl smiled sadly."That's the question I've been t