Victoria.Her name drags up a thousand ghosts. She is Adrianna’s sister by blood, but in Lance’s mind she has always been Wade’s shadow, orbiting in his poisonous world. And yet now, here she sits before him, not as the timid, fragile woman he remembers. She looks sharpened, hardened, transformed.Her hair is cropped into a blunt bob, dyed black so dark it almost swallows the dim light of the room. The shade alters her features, makes her cheekbones sharper, her presence more striking. Still, the resemblance to Adrianna is there — the curve of the lips, the bone structure. But where Adrianna’s eyes blaze, siren-like and unflinching, Victoria’s are softer, doe-like, yet carrying something heavier. Purpose. Resolve.She doesn’t fidget. She doesn’t glance away. She looks directly at him, shoulders straight, a file resting under her fingers like a loaded weapon.Lance remembers Adrianna’s words in the car earlier. Victoria was the last person with Father before his death. That knowledge h
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