The Ricci Heir
The engagement party, the spectacle, the performance.
I sat upstairs in my room, the only place that still belonged to me. My desk was cluttered with pages, ink stains marking the hours I’d poured into words no one here would ever read. To them, I was invisible. To the world beyond these walls, I was C.M. O’Malley. My mother’s name, her legacy hidden in mine. No one knew, and I preferred it that way. The scratching of my pen was steady, a rhythm that drowned out the chaos below. I was building a world where silence meant strength, where shadows carried weight. A world where I mattered. The knock startled me. My father never knocked. He barely spoke to me unless necessity forced him.
“Come in
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