THE WILD ROSE
Then she’d smiled sadly, small and brave, and offered to take Rose dress shopping for her birthday, which was coming up.
Rose should have smelled the lie. But Xavier’s hand was warm on her back, and for the first time in a year, the world felt right.
The dress they found was green, simple enough that Rose didn’t feel stupid wearing it.
Brittany had wandered off while Rose was in the fitting room.
When Rose stepped out, she caught her cousin at the edge of the market, talking to a rough man in a torn coat, with an unkempt beard. He looked like he hadn’t slept indoors in weeks. Brittany pressed something into his palm. Money, maybe?
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