The Unlucky Twin's Unseen Path

via, sharp and painful. They weren' t hazy dreams,

aped birthmark behind Olivia's ear, her mother had recoiled. To her, it wasn't ju

hia was the sun, and

tate. She learned to be quiet, to not ask for things, to expect nothing. She would sometimes see her family from a distance, wa

constant, dull a

Vance was a golden ticket, and her mother had no intention of wasting it on her "unlucky" daughte

ther had said, not meeting her eyes. "Sop

nning in a gown that cost more than the house Olivia had grown up in with her nanny. Et

was handed off like a piece of unwanted property. Liam was quiet and cold, his eyes holding a deep, impenetrable darkness. She knew he

xotic trips, and fawning articles in magazines. Olivia' s life was quiet and isolated in the imposing, som

, began to crumble. Rumors of fraud and a major data scandal surfaced. His investors pulled out, and

taff, a boy half her age. It was a desperate, foolish act, and when Ethan found out, he didn't confront her privately. He leaked the story to the p

ld incredible results. He was a master strategist, and his influence grew exponentially. He became the most powe

her own right, the elegant and composed woman at the side of a kingmaker. She hosted dinner

nly saw the end result. She saw

st. It was a partnership of convenience that served his ambition. Liam had used her. Her quiet, unassuming nature made h

, he dismantled his enemies. She endured the cold loneliness of their early years, the subtle humiliat

at a party. The woman had smiled cruelly and said, "You must be very brave, or very stup

, but she had lear

e powerful by leveraging his father's dark connections, by making deals that bordered on illegal,

but had no idea about the treacherous, corpse-strewn path that led there. She thought Olivia h

that shortcut. And Olivia knew it woul