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CHAPTER SIXTY : THE OTHER SIDE OF HIM
And that was the moment Alex knew they'd lost this round.Because Sarah wanted to believe her. Because discovering you have a twin sister and immediately being told she's your enemy was too much for anyone to process. Because Anna was playing her role perfectly, the innocent sister, the confused wife, the woman just learning her life was a lie.Sarah moved to sit beside Anna on the stairs. "I believe you."Adrian made a sound of disgust. Alex closed his eyes briefly. They'd given Anna the opening she needed, and she'd taken it beautifully."Thank you," Anna whispered, hugging Sarah again. "Thank you for believing me. I know this must be so hard for you.""It's hard for both of us," Sarah said, holding her twin sister close. "We'll figure this out together."Over Sarah's shoulder, Anna looked directly at Alex. For just a moment, her mask slipped. Alex saw the cold calculation in her eyes, the triumph, the contempt.Then she blinked and the vulnerable, frightened woman was back."I shou
CHAPTER FORTY-NINE: THE BREAKING POINT
Anna Chen stared at her phone screen, watching the recording of Sarah's world collapsing for the third time. Each viewing revealed new details, the way Sarah's hands trembled when she read the DNA results, the precise moment her face shifted from disbelief to devastation, the tears that started exactly forty-seven seconds into Alex's explanation.Perfect.Marcus would be pleased.She forwarded the video to his encrypted number and waited. The response came within thirty seconds: Phase three activated. Proceed as discussed.Anna smiled and started her car. Time to play the shocked, innocent twin sister.The drive to Elena's house took twelve minutes. Anna used the time to rehearse her expressions in the rearview mirror—surprise, confusion, hurt, betrayal. She'd been practicing these faces since she was eight years old, learning to manipulate emotions the way other children learned to ride bicycles.By the time she pulled into Elena's driveway, Anna Chen had disappeared. In her place sa
CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT: THE DOUBLE AGENT
Anna Chen sat in her car for another ten minutes after finishing the recording, watching her twin sister through the living room window. Sarah was crying now, Alex Castellano sitting beside her with an awkward hand on her shoulder, offering comfort he had no right to give.Pathetic.All of them. Sarah with her manufactured friendship, Alex with his manufactured identity, Adrian with his manufactured victim narrative. They were all playing roles in a story they didn't understand, moving through a plot Marcus had written before any of them were born.Anna had known the truth since she was eight years old. The day Marcus had shown up at her adoptive parents' house in Palo Alto, sat her down in their expensive living room, and explained exactly who she was and why she existed."You're my daughter," he'd said, his voice calm and precise. "You have a twin sister named Sarah. You'll never meet her, never know her, because she's being kept ignorant for a reason. But you, you're going to help
CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN: THE REVENGE
"No," Diane said sharply. "Marcus started this years before Alex and Adrian were born. He's been planning this revenge for three decades. He found Katerina. He learned about Irina's death. He discovered the pattern of exploitation in the Castellano family. And then he decided to use that pattern against you.""But why involve his own daughters?" Alex demanded. "Why subject them to the same separation he claims to hate?""Because Marcus doesn't want to break the curse. He wants to perfect it." Diane's voice was cold. "He wants to prove that the Castellano method of separating twins, exploiting women, and maintaining power through deception can work for anyone. He wants to show that the problem isn't the tradition, it's who's been controlling it.""That's insane.""That's revenge. Marcus spent his childhood suffering because of a choice Jonathan's father made. So now he's making his own daughters suffer to prove a point. He's using David's wife to destroy Alex's business. He's using Sar
CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX: THE DEEP OLD
"The twin separation tradition was created by your great-great-grandfather, Vittorio Castellano, in 1924. But it wasn't a mystical curse or an old-world superstition. It was a business strategy.""I don't follow," Alex said."Vittorio had six sons. Under normal circumstances, dividing his fortune six ways would have diminished the family's power. But if he could ensure that only one son inherited the bulk of the wealth while the others were raised separately, with no knowledge of their inheritance, he could maintain the family's financial position across generations.""That's insane," Alex said."That's capitalism." Diane smiled without humor. "Vittorio's scheme worked brilliantly. He separated three sets of twins, keeping one from each pair and hiding the others in orphanages, foster care, abroad. The 'kept' twins inherited everything. The hidden twins inherited nothing. And none of them knew about their siblings until it was too late to challenge the will."Jonathan was shaking his
CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE: THE WOMAN IN THE SHADOWS
The helicopter's rotors sent ripples across puddles on the adjacent building's helipad. Adrian watched the medical team secure Sophia's gurney, Jennifer climbing in beside her daughter, refusing to let go of her hand even as they strapped her in."I'm coming with you," Alex said, moving toward the helicopter."No." Jennifer's voice cut through the rotor noise. "You're staying here. You're fixing this mess. All of it.""Jennifer…""I mean it, Alex. I'm taking our daughter to Switzerland. You're staying here and dealing with your father, your brother, your psychotic grand-uncle, and whatever other family nightmares are about to crawl out of the woodwork." Her eyes were hard. "When I come back, if I come back, I want answers. Real ones. Not the sanitized version you've been feeding me for twelve years."The helicopter lifted before Alex could respond. He stood watching it disappear into the morning sky, his wife and daughter flying away from him toward a country he'd spent years hiding i
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