The last thing Evelyn Carter remembered was the fluorescent light of a hospital corridor, the smell of antiseptic, and the sound of a heart monitor flatlining in a room she was not allowed to enter.Her mother was dying in there. And Eve—Eve, who had spent twenty-six years being invisible, who had apologized for existing in rooms she was never even invited into, who had given her last paycheck to a girl named Seraphina Moore because Sera had "just needed a little help," who had worn beige so that no one would have to look at her—Eve had stood outside that door with her hands shaking, because she did not have the nerve to demand her turn.They had wheeled her mother in at nine. At nine-forty, the monitor flatlined.And Eve, who had no savings, no friends, no courage, and no one to call, had sat down in the plastic chair across from the door and thought: *I gave everything to everyone, and I have nothing left. I have never once in my life lived for myself.*She had meant to get up. She
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