She was a princess, but when she returned from Florence, she didn’t quite feel like one. The portrait her father had commissioned before she left the Vatican still hung in the great room, filling the halls with her presence when she couldn’t be there, but these days, it seemed more like fantasy than reality. That […]
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The thing about masks — ………………..(Rachel realizes as she blindly searches for privacy before her own crumbles to dust in front of a live audience) ………………………………………— is that revelation is inevitable, and the more perfect the mask, the more excruciating it is when it falls away. She supposes she should’ve seen this coming; the cracks […]
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No one forgets the moment they break, the exact split second their soul splits in two. Even in the days and weeks following, Leo would never get the memory out of his head and dreams. Every time he closed his eyes, he’d see the dreaded scene painted on the back of his eyelids. And every […]
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