Chapter 159 - Ch. 159 Slowly Merging Into One
Kaylee whistled freely as if all the burdens and misunderstandings she went through had never existed before. She walked to join her friends with an enthusiastic and excited heart.
"Why do you look so happy?" a member from one of the rival groups greeted her in an overly friendly tone. This guy never talked to her even once, but why did he approach her now?
"Do I?" Kaylee acted as if she knew nothing about her overly happy mood.
"Yeah. Your face looked like a Cheshire cat right now."
Cheshire cat? Kaylee tried to dig her memories where she had heard or seen this type of cat.
'It's the crazy cat in Alice in wonderland.' was the response of her other alter, making her frown.
Does she look as crazy as that ugly cat?
"There. You look better now."
"…" What the hell!?
"Seeing you laugh like that makes my skin crawl."
"…" Kaylee's lips twitched as she tried her best to hold her anger. "What's your business seeing me laugh or not? I don't remember us being close enough to have you meddle in my mood."
Gasp! Why did she say that? Kaylee realized that Roxanne had taken over control of her body.
No. Before this, Kaylee and Roxanne had repeatedly taken a turn in controlling her body, but none of them realized it until now. Whenever Kaylee was highly irritated, Roxanne would take over her mind and confront whoever irritated her.
Between Kaylee and Roxanne, Roxanne was the one who was more dominant and braver than the other one. Every time Kaylee encountered a problem like this, Roxanne would appear for a while.
After making sure there was no more danger threatening her, then Roxanne returned to her hiding place.
Surprisingly, Roxanne rarely shows up whenever Declan cornered her or lured her with his smooth temptations. Roxanne appeared in front of Declan for the first time when they kissed on their engagement night.
"Tsk. What a snob." the scornful tone of one of her rival groups brought Kaylee back to her senses.
'What have you done? Why did you upset him?' asked Kaylee to her other alter.
'He already targetted you since yesterday's performance. He knows you're the mastermind in our band and plans to wreck your mentality.'
Kaylee looked at the young man with a probing look. She didn't find anything suspicious about the young man.
'You're too prejudiced, Roxy.'
'I'm not. You never listened to me when I told you to fire Osbert, and as a result….'
Kaylee turned pale as she recalled the kidnapping by that creepy stalker. She sighed in defeat as she couldn't refute her other alter's accusations.
Born as the first child, Roxanne had received training from her father in understanding the situation around her. She was easy to get along with but did not open up easily to strangers.
Roxanne was often suspicious of anyone who approached her because she knew her father was not an ordinary man. She often sees the worst in people, while Kaylee was the opposite.
The eldest daughter was hard to tame and caused a headache for her parents, while the youngest one was kind and looked at the best thing in someone.
Thus, Roxanne created her alter side just like her sister... kind-hearted, innocent, full of obedience, and somewhat naive. Nevertheless, she let her other alter control her memories and only selected those good ones to keep inside her head.
After talking with Declan as Roxanne for a while, Roxanne started to accept the man in her life. She even granted the man's request that she be herself whenever she was with Declan. And now, Roxanne came out of her shell more often.
It was as if her mind merged into one with her alter creation and saw things differently.
'Relax, that creepy stalker would never bother us again.' coaxed Roxy when she realized her blood pressure had gone low from remembering the kidnapping incident.
'How did you know? Did you… kill him?'
'No. But I'm pretty sure our father did.'
That's what Kaylee and Roxy were worried about. In their eyes, their father was nothing but a doting father. They never imagined their father as a killer, let alone triggered the gun with his hand to shot someone's head, and yet he did.
Roxy accidentally found a secret passage at her home on the island, and that night, she saw something she shouldn't see.
Ever since that night, Roxy became afraid of her own father and rapidly avoided his touch due to that gory memory. She knew her father would never hurt her, but once she knew that her father wanted her to replace his position in the organization, Roxanne snapped.
She ran away and made trouble everywhere, wanting to make her father believe that she couldn't take over what her father had stored for her.
She was too unlucky for having a strong-willed father as he made it crystal clear that his decision was absolute. That stupid father of hers never knew his decision would cause his eldest daughter's relationship with her sister to be a strain.
Mister Zouch, aka Hades, never thought that his decision that day would cause his two daughters to quarrel with his eldest daughter ended up flying to Europe. He let his eldest daughter go and froze all her credit cards because he was sure that his daughter would come home once she had a life without money.
Little did he know, his elder daughter had the exact stubborn nature as him and still refused to come home even after a year living in Europe. Never did he imagine that his youngest daughter would have the courage to go after her sister alone. And that was their last meeting.
However, he didn't have the slightest idea of whatever happened to his two daughters while living in Europe. How and why his two daughters decided to switch places was still a mystery to him and anyone who knows that Kaylee Zouch is Roxanne Zouch.
That's why he never let his daughter's photo spread.. He didn't want to tell his enemy that his elder daughter was still alive because he knew… someone orchestrated the unfortunate accident.