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I didn’t sleep a wink that night.

Every time I closed my eyes, Aiden’s words replayed in my mind. His presence in that office, the weight of his gaze, the sharpness in his tone, it all felt like a constant echo, like something was winding tighter inside me, suffocating me slowly.

“You used to look at me like I was your whole world. Now you look at me like I’m your executioner.”

I couldn’t shake the feeling that Aiden was onto me. Not just onto the fact that I wasn’t Emily, but that I was someone else, someone hiding something. And that something was enough to make my skin crawl every time I thought about it.

How could he be so sure of his power over me? How could he stand there, cool as ever, like he had every right to question me? I wasn’t the same person I had been back then. I didn’t belong to him anymore.

But it didn’t matter. He still had control.

Why did he even call me Emily? Well, of course, I had her face. Everyone called me Emily.

Aiden’s relationship with Emily wasn’t a mys
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