Reclaiming Her Heart

Raymond got back to Manston Manor and made a call, "Dig up everything you can on Mario."

He'd promised Selena he wouldn't look into it, but there was no way he could just let it slide, especially after Mario had the nerve to use an aphrodisiac. Raymond needed to track this guy down and make him pay.

Meanwhile, Selena was burning the midnight oil at Ashbourne Manor, and she had her own people digging into Mario too.

She didn't want Raymond involved because she hoped he'd just forget about it. Otherwise, it would always be a sore spot between them.

But she had to get to the bottom of it. She needed to know what was up with Mario. Why did he give her such weird vibes, and why did he pull that stunt? And what was the deal with that chip? She even got Ashbourne Manor's private doctor involved. If it weren't for him, Mario wouldn't have gotten in.

But the private doc was clueless about Mario. He had called in another doctor, but that guy got knocked out.

Meanwhile, in a hidden lab over a hundred miles from Silver Bay City...

Christopher's alter ego stared at the computer data and slammed the table. He didn't have Christopher's knack for experiments. Even if he got the gist, he couldn't pull it off. Christopher was a prodigy, working with top scientists since he was a teen.

The alter ego yelled, "Christopher, you gotta help me."

He had the chip now. If he could crack it, Christopher would be gone for good, and he'd take over the body.

No more waking up in random places, sharing a body with Christopher. He couldn't stand being just another personality.

Christopher stayed silent, and the alter ego punched the wall, his fist bleeding. "We've come this far, and you still won't help. Do I have to kill Selena to get you to agree?" Even though they shared a body, he knew zilch about human experiments.

It was like waking up in someone else's body, and that body was originally Christopher's.

For some reason, he had this deep-seated hatred for Christopher and was hell-bent on taking him down.

The first step to getting rid of Christopher was to make him vanish and take over the body completely.

His tone softened, "Christopher, you already gave me this crucial chip. Can't you help me just one more time?"

Christopher sighed, "You don't have my memories, so you can't handle the experimental stuff. Unless you find the experts who were part of those experiments, but they're all under government control at that research base. You can't get in. When I went in, I came out with you in my body."

The alter ego asked, "What kind of human experiment was it?"

Christopher stayed silent. His alter ego had asked this question a million times, but he never answered.

The alter ego gritted his teeth and opened the door next to him. "I'm going to find Selena now and sleep with her hundreds of times, right in front of you, using your body!"

As he reached the door, Christopher's voice echoed in his mind, "It was an experiment on multiple personalities. Look it up. Someone with dissociative identity disorder can have an average of thirteen to fifteen different personalities, some even over a hundred."

Christopher's alter ego didn't say anything. Something felt off.

Christopher had to be hiding something.

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The alter ego said, "So you're saying I'm just another personality that split off from you after the experiment."

Christopher replied, "You could see it that way."

The alter ego threatened, "Christopher, don't think you can fool me with some made-up story just because I don't know squat about human experiments. If you don't cooperate, I'll head back to Silver Bay City and watch Selena and Raymond's love story unfold."

The alter ego tossed the small chip in his hand, his smile full of malice. "The government went to great lengths to get this thing, but it's useless in my hands."

Christopher's voice, still calm, echoed in his mind, "Because I can't experiment on myself, I can't get rid of you. Living in peace is fine."

The alter ego didn't speak, 'Am I really just another personality born out of stress?'

After a long pause, the alter ego maliciously raised his head and sent a message to someone in Silver Bay City.

Soon, everyone in the young crowd in Silver Bay City knew that Selena had a first love named Mario. She couldn't forget Mario, and her marriage to Raymond was forced.