Lena felt the presure pressing against her chest, stealing the air from her lungs. Every pair of eyes in the room was on her, and she could feel the heat of their judgment burning into her skin. Her fists clenched at her sides. Internally, she was seething. Clara, that conniving snake. She had trusted Clara, or at least tolerated her enough to let her circle close, but Clara had gone behind her back and whispered her deepest secret into Lily’s ear. And now, like wildfire, it had spread. The one truth Lena had carefully kept buried had been dragged into the open, twisted into something uglier. Clara wasn’t even here, not in flesh, not in voice, but her shadow lingered. She had planted the seed of poison, and it was blooming before Lena’s eyes. Lena could almost see Clara’s smirk in her mind’s eye, the smug curve of her lips as though she had just won the most important battle of her life. And Lily, standing tall, her chin tilted, smug satisfaction shining in her eyes, looked e
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