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Chapter 1

I went back to the hotel to pack, and the butler knocked and came in."Miss Cassie, this suite is reserved as the Don's bridal suite. Your authorization expired at two o'clock this afternoon. Also, the custom gown you are wearing was purchased on Family business. The balance is thirty thousand dollars, and it has to be settled by you personally."Elena came back and even the dress on my body stopped being mine. My phone buzzed. Lucian. His voice was as gentle as it had always been. "You heard all of it, didn't you.""Yes.""You should understand that none of this is me betraying you. It's me collecting ten years of justice for Elena, after everything she suffered."Seven years of tenderness played back in front of me. When I was young and my father's enemies ran us down and I went down and hurt my leg, he carried me on his back while we ran. When the gang wars broke me, he sat up with me all night. When the Family's rules closed in on me, he smoothed things over for me, and he was gent

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Chapter 2

A used ampoule fell out of my pocket. My mother saw it and quickly kicked it under the sofa. "More headache medicine, I assume. There are a lot of guests today, so don't take it out where people can see it."Everyone watched her do it, but nobody cared, because in their eyes this was just another one of my little performances.Lucian came over and smoothed my hair back. "The Family announcement is today. Be sincere about this. Once Elena isn't angry anymore, I'll still take you home tonight and our engagement stands. Be good."The moment he finished, Elena threw a maid's apron at me. "There's nothing else in the house, so just make do with this, Cassie."She led me into a bedroom herself, but she had deliberately left a freshly opened box of ultra-thin condoms on the table. The bed was covered with toys of every kind and lingerie, and my own things had been dumped in the trash.Beside the trash can was a hotel welcome card. Registered guests: Lucian, Elena.The date was the day the org

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Chapter 3

That medicine was the last supply in all of New York. Bringing more in from outside would take a week at best. "Lucian, I don't think I'll make it through tonight."The whole room burst out laughing. Marcus laughed until tears ran. "Cassie, you'd invent a joke like that just to get out of being the flower girl?"My mother wiped the sweat off my forehead. "Cassie, how are you still like this? When you were small and couldn't win against Elena, you played sick. It's been all these years. It's time you outgrew it.""I'm not faking." I had no strength left to argue."All right, all right, you're not." She nodded the way you nod at a child. "Once you've handed over the flowers and seen Elena through the ceremony, we'll take you to the hospital. All right?"To the cheering of the guests, I carried the bouquet and put it in Elena's hands. The photographer called everyone in for pictures, and I stood in a yellowed apron, squeezed to the very edge of the frame like an outsider nobody had counte

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Chapter 4

When the dinner started, Lucian noticed something was wrong with my face and helped me inside to sit down.He saw how pale I was and assumed I was cold, so he draped a wool coat over my shoulders. "Elena is only sulking. Don't take it to heart."Every time he ordered clothes from a tailor, he told them not to use wool. But today was the one day he forgot I was allergic to it."If Cassie won't wear it, will you put it on me instead?" Elena said, sweet and coaxing.The guests teased us. "Those two were closest of anyone as children, and now that the younger one's home, the older one's jealous. Cassie was spoiled from the start. Of course she should give way to a sister who's suffered."Marcus put a pen in my hand. "Sign the agreement, apologize to Elena, and this is over for good."The agreement was pushed in front of me again.I shook my head, stubborn. "My grandmother left that to me." My father was out of patience. "Stop being willful, Cassie. Nobody has time for your scenes today. Si

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Chapter 5

My soul drifted slowly up into the air, and I watched the five of them below me without any feeling at all."Cassie?" His fingers trembled as he tried again. "Don't scare me."Marcus pushed him aside, clearly tense now. "Cassie always used to fake fainting to scare us. She's ticklish."He reached over and lightly tickled my stomach. But I didn't react at all.My mother panicked. "Cassie, Mom knows you're hurting. Mom won't push you to sign anymore. Wake up, all right?"Elena shrank back, sensing something was wrong too, but her voice stayed just as wounded. "Is she doing this to get back at me on purpose? There are so many people here today. Does she have to humiliate me?"Lucian wiped the cold sweat off his forehead and pointed at the clock on the wall. "Cassie must be playing a game with us. We wait three minutes. She won't be able to hold it and she'll wake up."But five full minutes passed and I didn't move.Finally my father took out his hearing aid with shaking hands and pressed

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Chapter 6

The police had the doctor take my body away, and the hospital held it for the time being.The medical records and test results Elena had torn up, along with the pharmacy receipts, were pieced back together sheet by sheet and laid out in front of them all.Lucian still refused to accept it. "Cassie isn't dead. She was tired, she's only sleeping..."In the interrogation room an officer pressed him. "The victim told you repeatedly and clearly that she was critically ill. Why did you refuse to let her get treatment?"Lucian's voice was full of self-blame. "I thought she was joking with me. Ever since she was little she liked using illness to avoid things. It never occurred to me it could be real this time. I only wanted her to break the habit.""She told you plainly that she wouldn't last the day.""I thought she was just sulking."In the next room, my parents and Marcus told an identical story."We watched her grow up. How could we hurt her? We locked the door because we were afraid she'd

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Chapter 7

Elena was found the day after she went missing, but every one of them kept it from me. Family men found her in a toy store. It was half a day before I heard about it at all.Once they saw they couldn't hide it any longer they admitted it and said they were bringing her home. My mother said the fright had taken her memory and she didn't recognize anyone.But the truth was that Elena hated me to the bone."She lost me. She doesn't deserve to be my sister. Does she know how frightened I was, crouching alone at the side of the road? Does she know how dangerous the night is?"The elders of the Family suggested that the children were still young and the two of us should meet and repair things. My parents chose instead to send her to distant relatives and to tell the world she still hadn't been found. "If Elena sees Cassie it will scar her. Better not to let them meet."Marcus flew out to see her every week. Lucian knew as well. Seven years ago, at an underworld gala, he came over and asked m

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Chapter 8

When the maid finished, my mother wept aloud. "I only exchanged a few extra words with the vendor. I never thought Elena would wander off."She had buried the truth to escape the blame.The maid was dismissed for negligence, and even after my father learned the truth later, he never showed any intention of clearing my name."It's over and done with. Don't bring it up again.""We've come this far. Who takes the blame is a small thing."Elena knew perfectly well herself. She simply hated me, her sister, more than she hated our mother.I got to grow up inside the Family, while she had to live in someone else's house.Lucian drove his fist into the glass in front of him."So all of you knew the whole time that Cassie was innocent?"The only answer he got was silence.The letters between the two of them were dug up.Before the wedding, Elena had asked him, "What if Cassie gets upset?""Cassie is easy to soothe. I apologize and it's fine."Elena pressed further, "What if she loses her temper

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Chapter 9

Rosa took my body to be cremated and scattered the ashes into the sea. "Princess, you're free now."To atone, Lucian bought a stretch of that coast and set up a headstone for me.Weighed down by guilt, my parents sold off the family's assets and founded a charity in my name. After they were released, they came to my grave every All Souls' Day.My mother knitted a new toy and set it in front of my headstone. "When Mom isn't here, will you let this keep you company?""Cassie, all of it was Mom's fault. You've never come into my dreams. Is it because you still won't forgive me?" She opened her eyes, but there was no answer.My father stood far back from me and confessed, blaming himself. "I shouldn't have forced you. The port land was your grandmother's to give you."My father was old, and before long he fell ill. My mother begged Marcus for help, but no matter how many times she called, the line never went through.Only then did she understand how hopeless I had been.After my father die

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Chapter 10

Elena had the longest sentence, and by the time she came out she was the only one left. Everything she had been promised was gone. The organization had collapsed because of her, and everyone called her a witch.She was walking down the street with no destination when she caught sight of a dress in a shop window. It was the one she had worn on her wedding day.She mistook the salesgirl inside for me, charged in, and grabbed her by the hair. "Cassie, weren't you dead? Why are you still taking my things? You took Dad, Mom, my brother, and Lucian, and that still isn't enough? Now you want my gown too?"The salesgirl was knocked to the floor and people rushed to pull them apart. Elena was dragged off and sat on the floor, wailing. "Say something! Why won't you answer me!"But when she opened her eyes, everything around her terrified her. My face was gone and all that was left was wreckage. Her mind broke and they committed her to a psychiatric hospital. Sometimes she remembered the past and

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