Liars Like Us - Book 1: Legacy of Lies
Watching.
The cage might gleam gold — but the wolves circled close.
The laughter from her quip still echoed when Valentina reached for the tray. The envelope was crisp, heavy, the kind of paper that whispered money and power.
Her crimson nails slid beneath the flap. Inside, a single card.
No greeting. No signature. Just four words in a hand she didn’t know but already feared:
“Blood remembers its own.”
Her breath caught.
For a moment, the golden hall blurred. The laughter, the music, the crystal — it all thinned into smoke. She felt his eye again, watching, pressing, claiming.