Dahlia's POV I didn’t sleep. How could I, when the ghost I thought I buried came back into my life with a crown on her head? Mira… little, low-born Mira had returned as a princess, not crawling, not begging, but sitting at my father’s table with her chin high. She looked at me like I was beneath her, and the worst part was… everyone in the hall had looked at her the same way. As if she belonged there. As if I didn't. The memory gnawed at me, replaying with cruel precision: Harold’s amusement, Grace’s narrowed eyes, Cael’s smug composure, and Liam… oh, Liam. He had looked at her like a drowning man catching sight of air. That look… hungry, desperate, raw… stabbed into me deeper than any dagger. And I? I was left invisible. Forgotten. I had tried to corner her afterward, to remind her of what she really was. My words had been sharp, honed from years of watching her crumble beneath them. But she hadn’t crumbled. No, she had stood taller, her eyes blazing with fire I’d never
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