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OliverI came home to find Elijah unusually quiet and withdrawn.He was sitting at the kitchen table with his homework spread out in front of him but he wasn't doing any of it. He was just staring at the wall with a look on his face that I'd seen before when something was bothering him but he didn't know how to talk about it.Mrs. Park caught my eye and shook her head slightly to let me know she'd already tried asking him what was wrong and hadn't gotten anywhere.I sat down across from him. "What's going on?""Nothing.""Elijah, I can tell something is bothering you. Talk to me."He looked up at me and his gray eyes were troubled. "I've been having dreams.""What kind of dreams?""About a girl." He paused and seemed to be choosing his words carefully. "She looks like me but she's hurt and scared and I can't help her. I keep trying to reach her but I can't get there in time."I felt my whole body go cold and still. "Tell me more about this girl. What does she look like?""She has hair

ColetteI found the thread I needed on day four of going through the records.It was a transaction timestamp that didn't make sense at first but the more I looked at it the more I realized what I was seeing. The altered records had been created on a day I wasn't even in the country because I'd traveled briefly for a personal emergency.My father had been sick and I'd flown out to see him for two days. I had plane tickets and hotel receipts and dozens of witnesses who could confirm I'd been hundreds of miles away when these transactions were supposedly made.The location data on the altered records clearly showed they'd been created from the hotel's system but the time stamp showed they'd been done at midnight when no one was supposed to be in the office. Our security logs would show who had accessed the building at that time and it wouldn't be me.I kept digging and found more evidence that supported my innocence. A ghost login on the hotel's system that pointed to external access, s

OliverI sat Elijah down that evening after dinner and tried to figure out how to tell him something that would change his entire understanding of his life.We were in his room and he was sitting on his bed holding his favorite book about ocean creatures. I sat next to him and took a deep breath."Elijah, I need to talk to you about something important.""Okay.""You know how you've been having those dreams about a girl who looks like you?""Yes. About Lea.""Right. Well there's a reason you've been having those dreams and there's a reason you feel so connected to her." I paused. "Lea is your sister. Your twin sister."He looked at me with those gray eyes and didn't say anything for a long moment. He didn't cry and he didn't throw a tantrum. He just sat very still and processed what I'd told him."We're twins?" he asked finally."Yes. You were born on the same day at the same hospital. But you were separated when you were babies and that's why you didn't grow up together.""Why were w

ColetteOliver arrived at eight o'clock exactly.I'd put Lea to bed early and asked Maya to stay over in case Lea woke up while we were talking. When I opened the door Oliver was standing there in jeans and a sweater instead of his usual suit and he looked tired and human in a way I wasn't used to seeing."Come in," I said.He followed me to the living room and we sat on opposite ends of the couch with careful distance between us. Neither of us spoke for a moment and the silence felt heavy with all the things we needed to say.Finally Oliver took a breath. "I want to tell you everything I know about that night six years ago.""Okay.""I was drugged," he said. "At a business dinner. Someone slipped something into my drink and I started feeling strange and disoriented. I excused myself and went upstairs to one of the hotel rooms to try to sleep it off."I listened and didn't interrupt."There were people who wanted to destroy me back then. Business rivals who thought if they could fram

ColetteLiving in Oliver's house was both the easiest and hardest thing I'd ever done.The easy part was watching the twins together. They'd taken over an entire wing of the house and had essentially merged their personalities into one unit that moved and thought and played as a pair. Within two days of us moving in they'd rearranged both their rooms so the beds were closer to the connecting door and they could talk to each other before falling asleep.That part was beautiful and it made my chest ache in the best way. Elijah was like the big brother Lea didn't know she needed even though he was only older by seven minutes. He was protective and gentle with her and patient when she got excited about things he'd already learned about.I could barely believe they were twins even though I was starting to see how much they really did look alike. Same gray eyes and same serious expression when they were thinking and same laugh when something genuinely delighted them. The way they move