TIED IN HIS BED
The air smelled of paint thinner and lavender; unfinished canvases leaned against the wall, each stroke of color more frantic than the last.
She was a painter.
Or at least, that’s what the world saw.
But the truth,her real name, her real life was something buried deep beneath layers of new identities and falsified histories.
“Justina Ashes,” she whispered to her reflection in the cracked mirror, tasting the name that wasn’t entirely hers.
She pressed her hands against the sink, closing her eyes. Behind her lids, flashes of her past flickered:
Blood.
Sirens.
A man’s voice calling her name,a name she no longer used.
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