THE WRONG TWIN
"I was — I got caught up in the moment, and the conversation, and I shouldn't have—"
"No." Julian's voice was quiet but absolutely certain. "No, it wasn't."
"Julian—"
"I saw your eyes, Sophie." He turned in his seat to face her fully, and the composure had slipped enough now that she could see what was underneath it clearly — not anger, not frustration, but something far more dangerous. Certainty. "I was there. I felt what you felt. You can call it a mistake if you need to, but I know what I saw, and I know what you felt, and neither of those things were a mistake."