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Eliana followed Arnold towards the pool area that wasn’t far from their apartment. She had been waiting for an opportunity to prove that the person posing to be Arnold was a different person.

Her heart skipped a beat as she trailed behind him, hiding behind walls to avoid getting caught each time he turned to look around.

Arnold took off his clothes and went into the pool, looking around as though he had an idea that someone’s eyes were on him.

Eliana treaded carefully right until she got to the point where she had a clear view of him. She stared at him intently and that was when she caught sight of his bare back. It was empty…

She staggered slightly at this realization as differently thoughts swarmed through her heart. Her back leaned on the wall as she went through memory lane to think of when she had caught sight of Arnold’s back.

There was a time when Arnold had been sick and she was tending to him. She had massaged his body with some ointment and that was when she saw that he ha