Once His, Now His Ruin
Lily smithyou have forgotten the face of your fatherthe duke's daughter drops her engagement and facadewhen the family reads the fake heiress' mindletter to daughter on wedding day
Her strength was impossible—even for a turned Blackwell.
"Five years in the dark," she whispered, leaning close. "Five years of *her* memories bleeding into mine." She glanced at me, our matching golden eyes locking. "Do you know what happens when you resurrect a ghost inside a living vessel?"
Luna whimpered. The sound snapped something in me.
I launched myself at my doppelgänger.
Our collision shook the room. We rolled across the floor, claws raking, teeth bared. She smelled wrong—like antiseptic and stale air, with only a faint trace of Blackwell beneath.