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~ CAMILLAThe white dress mocked me from where it hung on the door.I had been staring at it for ten minutes now, watching how the afternoon light caught the intricate beading along the bodice. Bella Wright, my mother, had been very particular when she picked out the dress worth a lot of money. As if the price tag could make me feel differently about the dress and the entire situation.My phone buzzed for the fifteenth time in the last hour. I didn't need to check it to know it was her who had been calling. The wedding was supposed to start twenty minutes ago, and Pamela, my identical twin sister and the actual bride, was nowhere to be found.I pressed my palm against the cool glass of Pamela's apartment window and looked down at the street below. Manhattan moved at its usual frantic pace, oblivious to the disaster unfolding in this luxury high-rise. Yellow cabs honked at pedestrians who think they own the crosswalk. A street vendor argued with someone over the price of a hot dog. Lif

~CAMILLAI woke up alone in a bed that was bigger than my entire apartment back home, still wearing yesterday's wedding dress like some kind of deranged Cinderella.Sunlight poured through windows I forgot to close last night, and for a brief, beautiful moment, I thought maybe everything was a nightmare. Maybe I was still in my apartment in Brooklyn, and Pamela was safe, and I didn't just marry a stranger while pretending to be my twin sister.Then I saw the ring on my finger. Heavy, expensive, absolutely real.My phone was still buried in the drawer where I left it. I considered leaving it there, considering pretending the threatening messages didn't exist, but that wasn't going to make them disappear.Two new messages from the unknown number: Did Arthur enjoy his wedding night? You looked beautiful in white. Lies suit you.My hands were shaking so badly I almost dropped the phone.Someone was watching me. Someone who knew exactly what was going on and they