A faint sobbing sound was suddenly heard from the room.
Without much thought, Toby immediately opened the door and found a frightened Tina. It was after a short pause that she turned to walk further into the room.
“Tina,” he called out to her.
She paused and wiped away her tears before turning to face him with a forced smile. “Toby, are you done talking to Tim?”
“Yeah.” Toby stared at her for a couple of seconds before he asked, “Did you overhear us?”
Tina nodded as her eyes turned misty again. “Toby, d-do I really have dissociative personality disorder?”
He opened his mouth to say anything, but he couldn’t form his words and merely ended up grunting.
She covered her face with her hands and cried her heart out. “I’m sorry, Toby. I didn’t know about it. I really didn’t know. Sobs…”
“That’s fine.” As Toby felt sorry for her, he yanked her into a tender hug. “It’s not your fault. There’s no need to apologize.”
“I heard Tim saying that the new identity is evil, though. It is also being hostile toward Miss Reed. Did I do something horrible to her before I lost my memory?” She held his collar and asked with reddened eyes.
“That identity of yours…
exclaimed, “How could that
wasn’t you. Remember, it was your secondary identity.” He touched
mean toward her in the past few times. I knew I shouldn’t have done that, but I couldn’t control myself. It’s
on the head
it!” Toby hurriedly pulled her hands away. “I
caused her to trip. After that, I even pushed her off the
why you shoved her off the stairs, but it was the doing of your identity. It had nothing to
about my condition, though.” Tina sniffled and thought of something as she pushed him
“She’s fine,” Toby answered.
and sighed in relief. “That’s great. Good to hear that she’s okay, but I
his lips. “She will file a
the stairs, it’s only fair that she reported me. I should serve prison time for my behavior. The only thing is that I heard the female wardens are scary and excellent at torturing the inmates. I wonder if
stole a glance at him, but he did not notice it
identity merge with her main one, Toby couldn’t send her
went to jail, she would definitely be traumatized again, given how vulnerable her personality was. By then, not only would they
that, Toby narrowed his eyes and answered, “Don’t
the light in them had almost immediately dimmed. “Miss Reed won’t agree with your
her,” he muttered as
his phone buzzed from a call—it
and asked with
respectfully, “President Fuller, two research teams have arrived from
being. I will be back soon,” Toby
back to the office. Get some rest for now and don’t overthink it. I
Tina nodded obediently. “Okay.”
pocketed his phone and
best solution? If you fake a mental illness and
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