Luna By Blackmail
Tryphosamy marriage makes me feel dead inside
“Said anything that pretty should see light. The night she died, the cup was empty. I looked for days. I thought she’d hidden it. I thought it meant something.”
“It did,” I said quietly.
She stiffened a little at that, then softened.
“I keep trying to remember the last thing I said to her,” Zara whispered. “It’s gone. The memory’s there, but the words are fuzzed out. Like someone scraped them from the film.”
I let the anger move through me and out, kept it from leaking into my voice. “You were a child. You didn’t know you had to memorize the goodbye.”
She shifted, head sliding higher against my chest. “I should’ve known,” she murmured. “I should’ve seen it. The way she looked at Mara. The wa