A/N: This chapter is kinda sad and emotional. I hope you like it :)

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KELLY's POV

I couldn't move my body for a minute or so. I remained rooted on my feet while staring at him in shock. I couldn't fathom the fact that another Stephen was in front of me. I wanted to think that this was just a bad dream but I knew very well that everything was really happening.

Just one look at the bracelet that he was wearing, I finally connected every piece of the puzzle. I finally understood everything because I was the one who gave him that.

I bit my trembling lip as my tears fell continuously. I couldn't take my eyes off of him. Even though he almost looked lifeless, thin, very sick and pale, his face was undeniably very similar to Stephen. I looked at the apparatus that were attached to his body in order to keep him alive.

My trembling hand covered my lips as I couldn't get my eyes off of him.

Even though I felt numb and weak all over, I finally managed to move my feet. I was about to walk towards him when I felt a presence behind me followed by a cock of a gun. I didn't even notice that someone was already approaching behind me because my mind was still hazy and I couldn't think straight. I was overwhelmed.

"Who are you?" I heard an unfamiliar voice asked. I didn't answer. I remained staring at the patient that was lying there in the bed as I balled my fists.

"Turn around!" the man ordered. I slowly obliged and faced him. He looked surprised upon seeing me.

"Ms. Knight?" that surprised me but I couldn't even react. My brain seemed to stop working because of so much emotions.

"What are you doing here?" he put his gun down. He suddenly looked worried and restless.

"Where is he?" I finally managed to ask.

"Who?"

"Stephen" I uttered through gritted teeth. He was about to answer when someone arrived.

"What's happening here, bud? Who---" he stopped in mid-sentence when his eyes landed on me. His eyes widened instantly upon seeing me. I clearly saw the fear in his eyes. He looked passed me and when he probably saw that the door of the room behind me was open, a rush of different emotions ran though his eyes but fear was the one prevailing.

"Xuxu...." It was all what he could utter. His voice was shaking. The man next to him cleared his throat and then spoke.

"I'll just go downstairs" he said and then left. He looked familiar but I didn't care remembering about where I first met him because I wanted to interrogate Stephen right away.

No one between us dared to speak for about a minute or two. We were just staring into each other's eyes. Mine was asking for answers while his begging as if asking me to hear him out. He was the one who looked away first but he didn't voice out anything. He looked like vulnerable and in pain.

"W-What is the meaning of this. H-How come you two look alike?" even though my body was trembling with mixed emotions within me, I tried to toughen myself up.

"I...I'm sorry" my nails were almost digging in my palms because of clenching my fists tightly.

"Why are you saying sorry?" even though I already have an idea of what was going on, I wanted to hear everything from him directly because I wasn't sure who was who.

His face went pale as if he was afraid to talk. His lips parted as he tried to speak but nothing came out of his mouth. He was having the difficulty to explain. He couldn't even look at me in the eyes. I could see how guilty he was.

"Who are you really?" I asked after a couple of seconds; almost whispering.

"Kelly..."

"---Answer me!" I yelled in so much anger. I was trying my best to be brave but it was so difficult to do so. Is there any end to all of the pain? Of all the secrets that he was hiding from me?

I thought seeing him kissing another woman was the worst of all but the pain that I was feeling right now was incomparable. I couldn't explain. All I wanted to do was to just turn around and leave but I didn't want to be a coward.

I need to face everything bravely even though I felt like a melting candle that was about to ran out of flame.

"I'm---I'm Stephen Tyler Silva" he answered and then slowly turned his head in my direction. He finally met my gaze. His eyes were full of emotions and unshed tears.

"Then who is he?" I asked and pointed at the man who was in the room. I saw how he swallowed hard before he answered.

"He is my brother. He is my twin, Stephen Syril Silva" it was obvious that they were twins but something's wrong with everything. I could feel that he was keeping something big from me and I wanted to know.

Then all those instances where Stephen kept on apologizing to me about something came back to my mind. He kept on telling me that I wasn't his from the beginning...

"He was your boyfriend three years ago" I squeezed my eyes shut as more tears pooled from my eyes uncontrollably. I've never thought that I could feel this kind of pain before. I felt like my strength dissipated from my body. My legs were shaking as my heartbeat became faster.

The searing pain inside my heart was too much but the anger that rose within me was eating me alive. I couldn't believe that I didn't notice it before that the Stephen who came back to me after three years was not the same Stephen that became my boyfriend in the past.

It didn't occur to me that he had a twin brother and they're identical. Everything that he showed me was full of lies. He was nothing but a great pretender. He just used me. Nothing about him was real because he was fake from the beginning.

"I'm sorry for what I've done. I'm sorry that I deliberately made you fall in love with me because I thought you were one of them; that you were one of the people who harmed him. Please forgive me---" before he could even complete his sentence, I closed the gap between us and then gave him a slap in each of his cheek before I pounded him on the chest with my fists.

"Damn you! Damn you! How could you do this to me?! Why did you deceive me like this?! How could you?! All I did was to love you but you broke me entirely! You're nothing but a scum!" I was already hysterical as I continued hitting him on the chest. He didn't stop me. He just stood there and let me hit him. He received my rage.

My hands were already aching of continuously hitting him but I didn't care anymore. All I wanted to do was to bring out the rage in me.

After a couple of seconds, I felt him pulled me by the waist and then enveloped me in his arms tightly. I could feel that his body was trembling as well.

"Let me go, you jerk! Let me go! I don't want you touching me! You're nothing but a liar!" I cried while trying to push him away but he didn't let me go. His arms tightened around me even more instead.

"I'm sorry, xuxu. I'm so sorry. I love you so much. Please forgive me" he kept on repeating while hugging me. His voice faltered and I knew that he was already crying as well. I kept on wiggling out of his arms but I couldn't get out.

I kept on pushing him away until I finally gave up because I felt so weak from all the struggling but to no avail. I didn't have a choice but to cry on his chest. He kept on repeating how much he loves me and how sorry he was.

But I couldn't process all those words that he was telling me inside my brain anymore. I was so confused, hurt and full of disbelief. I couldn't believe that I was right all along during those times that I felt like he was a different person.

When we met for the first time after three years, he looked so cold, sarcastic and distant. I didn't understand why he acted like that before because he I wasn't aware that he was suspecting me of one of the people who shot his brother.

When I accepted him as my bodyguard, there were times that I was so confused because there were instances that he talked different from the Stephen that I've known three years ago. Even the way he kissed me and hugged felt way too different but it didn't occur in my head that he was a different person. I thought he just changed because three years had passed already.

It hurts. Yes, it felt so painful that the person I've learned to love and surrendered everything that I've got just deceived me like this and made me a fool out of me. I wanted to understand everything by hearing him out but I just couldn't.

I was already beyond hurt and I wasn't sure if I could still see him as the lover that I knew these past few months.

When I finally gathered enough strength, I forcefully unwrapped his arms around me.

"Xuxu---" I turned my back on him without any intention of hearing him out. I went inside the room and then slowly approached Stephen from three years ago.

I bit my lower lip when I felt another batch of tears falling down my damp cheeks. Damn! I felt l like dying in so much pain. I was so overwhelmed and I didn't know what to do.

My hand automatically raised and then gingerly touched his pale cheek. He looked nothing like the happy, energetic and loving Stephen from three years ago. He looked so fragile, weak and almost lifeless.

"Please, wake up" I uttered pleadingly. I wanted to talk to him so much. I wanted to hear what really happened to him directly from his mouth. I wanted to confirm everything. I took his hand and held it for I didn't know how long.

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STEPHEN's POV

After spending two weeks away from my job as a special agent of our organization, away from Kelly and avoiding the people who wanted to kill me, I finally realized something. No matter what I do, the truth would still come and haunt me.

I thought I could finally move on from Kelly the moment I hear about her explanations but it was the opposite.

I fell in love with her even more because I finally got the confirmation that she was indeed innocent. That she wasn't one of the people who harmed my brother.

I arrived at the thought three years ago that she was one of them because I thought she finally discovered what Syril did to her and took her revenge on him but I was wrong. She didn't do anything wrong and she doesn't deserve all the pain that I brought her. I was nothing but a heartless jerk.

I wanted to start all over again with her that's why I chose to ask her the questions that have been bothering me. I told her about my personal mission and all but when she asked me about the person who I was avenging to, I wanted admit what I did and tell her the truth but Joaquin called me.

He told me that Syril was having a seizure and his lifeline went flat. I was so scared that I decided to go to my hidden house outside the city where I've been keeping him these past few years.

His life was in danger and I had to keep him away from everyone that was hunting him down. I had to fake his death just to protect him.

Because of the bad news that Joaquin told me and the fear that I might lose my brother anytime soon, I failed to notice that Kelly followed me. Now, I finally confessed to her about my well kept hidden secret and I didn't know if she could forgive me of what I've done.

Overwhelming pain pierced my heart when I saw how Kelly touched Syril's face while crying. I remained standing there, watching her, even though I felt like I was dying inside and out.

She finally got reunited with the person that she really loved. I felt like dying knowing that her first love was finally in front of her.

They're the ones who truly loved each other and I was nothing but a third wheel. Even though I've loved her first, I still didn't have any right to her.

Now that she finally discovered about Syril, I need to let her go.

I knew that I didn't have the right to feel this way because I was the one who deceived her and made her believe that I was her ex-boyfriend but I couldn't help it. It hurt knowing that she will no longer be mine.

I hurt her but I hurt my brother as well. I tried to steal her girlfriend while he was in coma. I was the worst.

Syril kinda did the same thing in the past to me but I forgave him and gave up my happiness for him. But when I saw Kelly again, it was so hard to control my feelings for her. I felt like that the love that I have been keeping in the deepest part of my heart overflowed and I couldn't stop it.

"Wake up, please" I heard her say in a voice above whisper and then held Syril's hand. I couldn't take that scene anymore. I turned my back and left them alone but I felt like thousands of needles were piercing my heart with every step that I took away from them.

I wiped the tears in my eyes but they still stubbornly fell. A pained smile broke on my lips. Ever since then, Kelly was really my weakness. She was the only woman that made me feel heaven and hell at the same time.

"You deserve this pain, T. This is your karma" I said to myself while walking with a heavy heart.

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Is there any chance for them to be together again after all the tears and pain?

What do you think would happen next?

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