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Chapter 8

Auteur: Erika Lana Bell
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Scarlett’s POV.

The sky outside the café was painted in low gold, clouds curling like steam above the glass skyline as if the universe itself was holding its breath. I should’ve known peace didn’t last.

Olivia and I had just finished splitting a lemon tart, the kind dusted in powdered sugar, and we’d wandered into the boutique across the street—a glossy space filled with overpriced shoes, bored salesgirls, and fancy perfume.

I was smiling. Actually smiling.

And then I saw her.

Dahlia.

She swept in with the kind of practiced grace that only a narcissist or a trained ballerina could pull off—heels too high, skirt too short, hair cascading in perfect gold curls that bounced like her lies. Beside her was my stepmother, polished in designer gold, her expression tight with false concern and barely-concealed malice.

“Well, well,” Dahlia purred, her voice sweetened with venom as she spotted me across the shop floor. “If it isn’t the runaway bride.”

I didn’t respond.

I had learned that the bes
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