The Impostor Daughter

hall. "Honey, what are

. I was small and quick. I slipped out a si

get to Was

hid on buses, on trains, a ghost in the machine of the mortal world. Th

f the city. Security was tight. I waited across the street, h

e end of the d

a mask of controlled ambition. She looked jus

the shadows and w

y?" I

. Her professional mask crumbled. Her eyes, so col

g second, I saw it. Recog

er eyes. She drop

bled forward and wrapped her arms around me, a sob e

on. She

h vanished. She stiffened. Her paranoia, honed by y

stumbled backward, falling

ury and suspicion. "Who sent you? Is this one of my rival' s ga

ical weapon, no

d, my heart shatte

erved, was a four-leaf clover. A secret token. Lily had found it with her mother in a

at it, her e

ce laced with venom. "Tell your master

ng me on the sidewalk. The keychain slipped from my finge

of, my little piece