CHAPTER 110THE FACE OF THE WOMAN WHO LEFTFor a moment, Miyaka forgot how to breathe.The woman standing in the doorway had her mother's voice, her mother's gestures, and the same sorrowful way of looking at her that Miyaka had spent years imagining in her dreams. But the face was wrong. It was the face of Seraphina—the woman who had appeared in old photographs, the woman whose eyes resembled Miyaka's, the woman who had once admitted knowing Lucien wasn't her brother but had allowed Miyaka to believe otherwise.Seraphina.The name seemed to reverberate through the chamber, turning every memory Miyaka had ever associated with her mother into something uncertain.“No,” Miyaka whispered.The woman stepped farther into the light. Her hair was longer than it had been in the photographs, streaked with silver at the temples. A thin scar ran along her jaw, and her eyes were red from crying. She looked exhausted, as though she had spent years carrying something too heavy for one person to sur
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