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The Ghost in The Frame

作者: Monellawrites
last update 最終更新日: 2025-05-30 16:12:57

Aria

I hadn’t even made it halfway down the corridor when I saw it.

A thick gold frame hung on the hallway wall, catching the light just enough to be proud of itself. I stopped the second I saw the photo inside—the one from earlier today. Already printed. Already framed. Already displayed like it had always belonged there. It hadn’t even been six hours.

I stepped closer.

Twelve women lined the back of the photo, smiling in practiced perfection. Kol sat in the centre like a king, and next to him was me. Or what looked like me.

Hair styled to mirror Lira’s. Lips painted a red she used to swear by. My smile felt borrowed even in a frozen image. The others looked at the camera.

Kol was looking at me. Except… he wasn’t. His eyes were soft, distant, mournful. He wasn’t looking at me. He was looking at her.

My fingers curled into a fist. I wanted to smash it. Shatter the glass and tear the frame off the wall and demand someone explain to me why I was being made into a living relic of my dead
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