COLD STEEL, BLEEDING HEARTS
Her face had that kind of beauty that looked carved from ice.
“Hello, Julian,” she said, voice calm and almost musical, like singing a lullaby. “You’ve grown so much. You have your father’s chin.”
Julian froze. “Who are you? How do you know my father?”
“My name is Catherine Rossi,” she said.
Maya’s breath caught. “Rossi? But… my grandfather only had two sons. David and Marcus.”
“That’s the lie they told you,” Catherine said, her smile sad. “I was the third child. The daughter they erased. Because I fell in love with a man who worked in the kitchen. A man named Thorne.”