I stirred awake when I felt a hand on my cheek.I groggily opened my eyes. "How are you feeling?" I swatted Kol's hands away from my face."I need sleep." "It's 12pm." My eyes snapped fully awake. "I slept the whole night and half the day? And you let me!"He pulled back, unsure of exactly how I was feeling. "Was I supposed to wake you? You seemed so peaceful and I didn't want to disturb that."I paused. I hadn't slept that well in a while and honestly, it was because of him. I fell back on the bed and looked at the ceiling and then at him, with a smile on my face.His eyebrows rose in confusion, probably wondering how I had managed to go through many emotions in the space of seconds. "What?""Thank you." His eyes twinkled with mirth."Why?""Because..." There was no exact reason I could pinpoint. I just knew I wanted to thank him.When he realised I wasn't going to say anything else than stare at him, he stood up from his crouched position beside me."Well... I have something t

CHAPTER FIFTY-THREEMy fork hovered mid-air as I narrowed my eyes at the figure before me.‘What on earth was he doing here?’ I thought to myself.No one replied him but we had the same thoughts going through our heads.What did he want now?Josh’s teeth gritted against one another as his stare hardened. I looked to the side and was shocked to see a smirk on his face. It was the first time I’d seen an actual emotion displayed on his face whenever Jason was around.One could tell it caught Jason off guard. Jason’s eyes squinted they continued their stare off. When Kol didn’t back down, his ticked off eyes wandered to us, trying to see if he could figure what Kol was thinking. We were just as perplexed.“Let’s go.” Kol wiped his mouth and stood up, leaving Jason at the table. My mouth dropped open as I looked at Kol, then at Josh who had his brows raised and then back at Jason who was about to pop some veins.“What was that?” I said as I followed after Kol.“What she said.” Josh was just

“Put me down.”“No.”“I said put me down.”“Fine.”Kol placed me gently on his bed and walked backwards, putting enough space between us. I could finally breath clean air again and not his drowning scent.I wanted to fold my arms against my chest in petulance but I remembered what had happened earlier and bristled on the inside. Kol rolled his eyes at me and took off his jacket angrily. His jaw worked with tension and I was appalled at the fact that he seemed pissed. He was pissed.“How on earth are you mad at me? I’m the one in pain here.”“How? You’ve been giving me an attitude all day. You wouldn’t look at me, not at work, not at the hospital and not right now.”“I am looking at you.” He bent down and grabbed my jaw. Subconsciously, my face turned away from him.“See what I’m talking about?” He released his hold and stood, taking off the rest of his clothes. I looked away to avoid seeing things that would disorient my mind. I knew I was acting childish when I lay down on the bed an

I slammed the door of the car as I settled into the passenger seat. Kol looked at me apprehensively as he waited for me to speak.“I’m a twin.” Kol’s eyes grew wide as saucers.“Charlie is your twin sister?” I nodded at him.It was too much information to process at once. After the shell-shocking news, we couldn’t really get past it and we’d decided it was more than enough information for now. We had hugged and said goodbye.I knew nothing about her and about myself but it felt like I still knew too much. I’d been waiting to find out the gender of my sibling. I did. Then, I wondered if I was younger or older. It turned out we were the same age. Just minutes apart. I’d had the wrong birthday all this while.We were July born and my original name was Charlotte Rivers.“Wow.” I sunk into my seat trying to process a different life as Charlotte Rivers. I couldn’t. It seemed like a world far away. Too far away yet so close.“Let’s just go.”***“Did you say Rivers?” Kol spun around to look

I now had two men shadowing me everywhere I went. Everyone was a suspect, regardless of who it could possibly be connected to.Kol hadn’t had many partners and one was already dead. I highly doubted that high school crushes could some how spawn delusion psychopaths who thought it was perfectly okay to watch people in their houses and how on earth had they even avoided the cameras? All three of us, Kol, Josh and I had stayed up all night ransacking video footages of the company, the streets near and Kol’s house and found nothing. It was like this person was a ghost. A skilled ghost.I didn’t tell Thea or Charlie. They had too much to deal with. I couldn’t offload all that on them, plus, it was my problem. I’d deal with it.I’d temporarily moved in with Kol and we now went to work and back home together, fueling the rumours at work for anyone who noticed. Kol’s place was safer than mine in terms of security and definitely much cozier. Our fights had increased daily and we were both stre