The Heiress Returns: Reclaiming My Legacy
They looked like they'd stepped straight out of a movie, hand in hand, laughing at inside jokes I couldn't hear, completely oblivious to everyone else around them, including me trailing behind like their unacknowledged bodyguard.
I adjusted the mask hanging loose around my neck, not even a proper costume, just something I'd grabbed last minute from a drugstore so I wouldn't look completely out of place. A black hoodie, jeans, and a half-face masquerade mask that I couldn't quite commit to actually wearing. Perfect representation of my current mood: half-invisible, half-pathetic, entirely uncertain about my place in the world.
Lucas turned briefly, spotting me lagging behind, and grinned. "Yo