Sydney's POV

Those words ran through my head as if a sledgehammer was being slammed against the strongest iron wall. Dong!

The ringing wouldn't stop. I would have held my head, but I was still bound.

The forest was plunged into complete silence; even the music had drowned out. It was as if they were waiting for me to take it all in.

I started thinking back to when Doris introduced Mark to me. Did Doris know about this? I wondered.

Besides, how? How the hell was it possible that he wasn't Lucas? He looked like him, spoke and behaved like Lucas—everything about him was exactly as I remembered!

I...