Chapter 175

[Cordelia]

"What does this have to do with you?" My father scrunches his face at her words, a bit disgusted with her sour tone. "Sydney, can't you see? This is all about you."

The garden falls silent except for the sound of birdsong in the trees above us. None of us say anything, waiting as the words fall around us and settle in our minds. Three missing embryos. The incorrect one was implanted in my mother, leading to my birth.

Three embryos. Technically conceived at the same time as Angelica, part of the same batch and frozen for the future.

Sydney looks just like Angelica. Errily so, almost as if she were her twin.

So many things begin to make sense as I consider the last few months. Especially the events on the island. Angelica had said something about "not caring about a stupid test," and that "I was her sister" when she was trying to save me from whatever Jude had planned.

She knew. She's known this whole time that I couldn't be her blood relation. And yet she didn't say anythi