Rejected by the Billionaire Alpha

Chapter 16: The Girl With My Face

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📖 Chapter 16: The Girl with My Face

Part 1: Reflections

It started with a mirror.

Cracked—just a thin line across the glass above the bathroom sink.

But the reflection staring back at me wasn’t quite… right.

Her eyes were wider. Her smile lingered too long.

And she didn’t move when I did.

I blinked. She didn’t.

I reached out. She stayed still.

Then she smiled.

And mouthed a word I couldn’t hear—but felt in my bones.

Mine.

I stumbled back, shattering the mirror.

Blood on my hands. Again.

I thought it was just stress. Trauma. Residue from the ritual.

But then the house began to whisper.

And the others began to stare at me… like they weren’t sure who I was anymore.

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📖 Chapter 16: The Girl with My Face

Part 2: The Disappearing

It wasn’t just mirrors.

It was my scent.

My room.

My clothes.

Everything began to feel… off.

The omegas whispered when I passed. Some bowed. Others flinched.

And then came the knock.

Marissa stood outside my door, pale and shaken.

“Aurora,” she said, voice trembling. “Where were you last night?”

I frowned. “I was asleep. Here.”

“You came to the nursery,” she whispered. “You were… humming. Then you vanished.”

“I didn’t.”

“Yes. You did.” Her voice dropped. “But you were wearing a white dress. The one we buried.”

I froze.

That dress had burned in the fire ten years ago.

I had never worn it.

Not in this life.

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📖 Chapter 16: The Girl with My Face

Part 3: The Others See Her Too

I asked Liam.

I didn’t want to—but I had to know if he saw it too.

He hesitated.

Then nodded slowly.

“Sometimes I see you… but you don’t smell like you,” he whispered. “You don’t hug the same.”

“When?”

“At night. When I wake up scared. You sit on the edge of the bed. You smile with all your teeth.”

My stomach turned.

“What do you do when that happens?”

“I close my eyes,” he said. “Because your shadow is too tall.”

I held him tight.

He didn’t feel like he was lying.

Then, that night, Caleb came to my door.

He looked dazed. Confused.

“You were in my room.”

“I wasn’t.”

“You said you loved me.”

“I didn’t.”

“Then why,” he asked, voice cracking, “was your mouth bleeding when you left?”

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📖 Chapter 16: The Girl with My Face

Part 4: No Longer Just Me

I returned to the mirror.

I forced myself to look.

The crack was still there.

But so was she.

Her hair was longer now.

Her smile wider.

She was wearing my necklace.

My real one.

The one that had gone missing after the fire.

I whispered, “Who are you?”

Her mouth moved with mine. Perfectly in sync. Until the last word.

Then she laughed.

It echoed. In the walls. In the pipes. In the glass.

And then, in the silence, she whispered:

> “You opened the door. I walked through.

Now it’s your turn to disappear.”

The mirror shattered into dust.

And I realized—

I was no longer the only Aurora in this world.

I might not even be the real one anymore.

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🪞 Teaser – Chapter 17: A Face with No Soul

Aurora's memories begin to shift.

People speak to her like she's already said things she hasn't.

Liam draws two mommies—identical—and doesn't know which one to trust.

And the Elders declare one terrifying truth:

> Only one soul may remain.

Chapter 17: A Face with No Soul

How do you fight someone…

when they’re wearing your skin?