Malini (1)

Silence tailored her thoughts with silken threads. It used to be comforting and warm. But now, silence didn’t help with the whirlwind of thoughts bombarding her mind. It was like a spark that triggered the fire in Clara’s head, and the failed escape attempt had thrown her into a pitfall.

Clara examined her hands as if staring at them could bring back her powers. Without it, there was no space in her heart with nothing but helplessness.

After Prince Alexander and Maxwell had brought her back inside the room, more guards were stationed just outside the door. And Clara knew she couldn’t pull off what she did earlier again. It was one lucky chance, yet she blew it off.

Any moment from now, the parents of the girl whose body she occupied would barge through the door. And they wouldn’t know that a different girl was living in Ariah.

There was just one big question that Clara had been dying to know the answer to: How did she end up in another’s body?

‘Think, Clara,’ she told herself. ‘What is