Vengeance Wears A Crown
But in that moment, something in me flinched away from it — some instinct that said not yet, not like this, not with her blood still under your fingernails — and instead of lifting the lid, I wrapped the box in an old cloth and tucked it deep into the bottom of my travel bag, beneath the two dresses and the small purse of coins that were now, apparently, everything I owned in the world.
There would be time for the truth. Tonight, I needed to survive being alone.
It was only as I was folding the second dress that my fingers brushed the back of my neck — an old, unconscious habit — and I stopped.
There's a tattoo. At the back of your neck. Half of a heart, drawn in black.
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