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One week later, Aiden returned to my parents’ house.He had lost a great deal of weight, and his eyes were webbed with red.“If you agree to the soul transfer, I’ll give you fifty million dollars and five percent of Hartwell Group.”Kira overheard from outside the door and stormed into the study.“Why are you doing this to me? You already had a wedding with me. Wasn’t I the one you loved?”Aiden pulled his arm from her grasp.“I never loved you.”“I promised you a wedding because I believed you had saved my life. But do you know what I found out?”Kira went still.“You can’t swim.”A few days earlier, Aiden had returned to my university to search for traces of me.The swim coach recognized me from a photograph.“She was strange,” the coach said. “Every spring and summer, she refused to go near the pool. The moment fall arrived, she signed up for cold-water training.”“We told her it would be easier to learn once the weather warmed up, but she always said she wouldn’t be here then.”At

Aiden caught my collapsing body.“You said we could choose who came back,” he roared at Dr. Rowan. “I chose Roxy. Why can’t she stay?”Dr. Rowan shook his head.“Her soul was already too weak. This transfer gave her only enough strength to say what she needed to say. She has no power left to remain inside the body.”“No,” Aiden rasped. “Do it again.”“Even if I force her back, she will disappear again within moments.”The body in Aiden’s arms opened its eyes.Kira sat up, holding her head.“Why am I still here?”Dr. Rowan looked away.“From now on, this body belongs only to you. Roxy will never return.”Kira’s eyes lit up.“Really?”She could not hide the delight spreading across her face.“I always said this body should have belonged to me.”She started to rise, but Aiden seized her by the throat.“Give Roxy back to me.”His eyes were bloodshot, his expression completely unhinged.“Give me back my wife.”Kira struggled until my parents rushed forward and dragged Aiden away.“Roxy is a