The Betrayed Heiress's Comeback

phantom pain of my last b

r-poster bed. Morning light, soft and golden, streamed thr

ay of my deb

all began

one I' d spent months with the coutur

place,

rp and familiar,

appearance, her stolen spotlight, and then... then the cascade of betrayals, my father' s "accide

ce, Grayson' s weak complian

ught the

' t know

ed, my movements

this time, only a

tique armoire, a place wher

ory lace and seed pearls, my grandmother' s debutante

t per

rling mansion buzze

a sea of white

" Dixon, my second cousin, the ch

surrounded by a small circle of admirers, we

, down to the last hand-stitched bea

, my heirloom gown w

saw me, then widened into th

was so worried when yours went missing. B

with false concern

e her, my gaze

taff to deliver it to your room after you

wd around her

nd flying to her chest in a

ng? It must have been a terrible

sunderstanding that led to you wearing a gown custom-made for me,

tried it on. To see... and then

Always

in that doomed previous life – stepped forwa

reased with disapproval

set? It was clearly a mistake. Don't make a sc

or her, even when he was supposedly mine. They were cousins, a fact

race, Brent? Is that what you ca

to Savy, who was now t

. Or I' ll have security remove i

f absolute authority, the authority of the St

y ball, my life. And