My Dark Self (My Dark Self Series, #1) by Jessica Huntley

Author:Jessica Huntley [Huntley, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jessica Huntley
Published: 2021-06-30T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

I'm trapped in my own body. I can’t speak or move, but I can hear everything that Alicia is saying, feel everything she is feeling and see everything she is doing. It’s terrifying because I have never known her to be so cold, so heartless, so angry. Yes, she has been angry before and she has said some nasty things and probably done much worse, but this is the first time I have experienced anything like this. Usually I completely disappear when Alicia takes over. I don’t know where I go exactly, but I'm not present. Yet now I am completely helpless and at her mercy.

Alicia realises after a few minutes that she needs to try and pretend to be me or she'll give the game away. She's putting on a good show for Peter, but there is a harshness to her voice and her style of movement is very unlike mine. Call me crazy, but I think Peter has noticed that something isn't quite right already because he's looking at me with a strange and confused look on his face. He believes Alicia’s story that the doctor has released her and helps to collect her things from the hospital. He kindly offers to take her back to his place to rest and recover, which she agrees to. I'm looking forward to seeing Oscar. He must be wondering where I am by now. I never want him to think I've abandoned him the way his previous owner did.

I can’t be sure of this, but I don’t think Alicia is aware that I am still here. I can’t hear her thoughts, so maybe she can’t hear mine. Something has changed between us, whether it's got something to do with me now knowing what/who she really is, I'm not sure. It’s a strange sensation, but it means I don’t have to say or do anything, enabling me to really think about what happened in the hospital and what I found out.

This is what I know: Alicia (the voice in my head, not the real one) is my identical twin, or at least she would have been if she had survived and grown to term. She is some sort of weird tumour or, what was it called – a foetus in fetu – a rare condition where one twin envelops and absorbs the other, but not fully. She is somehow still inside of me. According to the doctor I am only the second adult woman to have this condition (that medical experts are aware of).

I wish Alicia had stayed in the hospital. I had wanted to ask the doctor so many more questions, such as: is the foetus in fetu dangerous – can it be removed completely – why does it happen?

Here’s an even more interesting question – what about my fraternal twin? Is she really real or is Alicia Phillips actually a complete stranger that I have somehow fixated myself on and convinced myself that she is my twin sister? Alicia

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