Chapter 10 – The First Glimpse
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Selene woke to the rhythmic creak of the ceiling fan and the faint smell of dust and varnish.
The antique shop. Her new life.
For the first time in years, she felt free — no schedules, no servants, no husband watching her with polite detachment. Just silence, and the hum of rain on the windows.
She opened the shop early, arranging porcelain vases and brass figurines on the shelves. Everything felt strangely comforting. But when she touched the cracked mirror — the same one Ariana had seen the night before — a faint jolt ran through her fingers.
Her reflection blinked after she did.
“Okay,” she whispered nervously. “That’s… not creepy at all.”
Then, suddenly — the world tilted.
The shop dissolved into light. She saw flashes of places she didn’t know — a grand dining room, Damian’s face half-hidden in shadow, a woman crying quietly into her hands.
And then — herself, in that mansion, wearing Ariana’s ring.
It lasted only seconds.
She stumbled backward, gasping as the vision shattered. The mirror returned to normal, showing only her reflection again.
“What the hell was that?” she whispered.
The air in the shop was still, but her heart pounded as if she had just run miles.
That night, unable to sleep, she wrote a message meant for Ariana — though she didn’t know how her twin would ever see it:
“Have you felt it too? The mirrors… the light… the way time bends?”
Unseen by her, the same message appeared in faint handwriting on the steamed bathroom mirror of Ariana’s mansion.
The twins were linked — across miles, across time — and neither yet understood the power they’d begun to wake.
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