Wicked Heart (Born to Die Book 1) by Candace Wondrak

Author:Candace Wondrak [Wondrak, Candace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six – Lola

A face like mine stared back at me from the mirror—only it wasn’t mine. The cheekbones were more pronounced, the jaw a bit squarer and lined with blond stubble. Eyes there were my shade of blue sat in a face I knew deep within my soul. It wasn’t my face, though.

It was my brother’s.

Aiden stared at me from the mirror, watching me as I watched him. I couldn’t take my eyes off him. Something was wrong. Something was very, very wrong here.

I blinked, and suddenly Aiden’s face had a red handprint on his right cheek. Blood smeared onto his white skin, and he was slow to smile at me… and that smile made my insides churn in the worst of ways.

That smile always conned everyone but me. He was my parents’ angel, the son who could do no wrong. Wasn’t he dead? Did I kill him? Why the fuck was he here? I felt insane. I reached up to run a hand through my hair, and as I did so, I watched Aiden’s reflection do the exact same thing. Whatever movement I made, he mirrored.

I froze. He froze.

I glared. He glared.

I gave him the stink eye, and he gave me one right back.

What the hell was going on here? I opened my mouth to speak, because maybe that wasn’t a mirror—maybe my mind was playing tricks on me; it’s been known to do that, after all. However, the moment I started to speak, Aiden’s reflection changed. It morphed into something different.

Still Aiden, unfortunately, but he was covered in blood. His blond hair dripped the gooey stuff, and his entire face was coated in it. With so much blood on him, it made his blue eyes pop, and he stared at me with a frown.

“Look at what you’ve done,” he whispered, his voice a nagging, creeping thing crawling up my neck, threatening to choke me. As he spoke, something dripped off the top of my head, falling onto my cheek and causing me to recoil a bit.

I went to smear it on my fingers, to get whatever it was off, and when I did, I saw that it was blood, just like Aiden. I blinked, and suddenly both of my hands dripped red. So much blood. So much. I couldn’t even remember where it had come from, how I’d stained my hands this time.

“Look at what you’ve done.” Again, my brother spoke it, but this time it wasn’t my brother’s voice. It sounded… strangely familiar, and it caused my head to snap up and my eyes to lock with the reflection in the mirror.

It wasn’t my brother anymore. It was me. I’d said that, although I definitely didn’t remember moving my lips to do so. I didn’t know what the hell was going on here, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that something was very, very wrong. I almost felt sick.

The me in the mirror lifted her hands—bloody, like mine—and she slammed them against the mirror, cracking it into a spiderweb of broken pieces.

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