The Unlucky Twin's Unseen Path

re. It was a delicious piece of gossip. Sophia, the celebrated beauty, had inexplicably chosen the quiet, inten

e a strange, perhaps foolish, choice. O

than a wedding departure. There was no fanfare, no well-wishes. She packed a single sui

ase. Her mother was standing in the foyer, her

ing with contempt. "But don't think for a moment that this changes anything. You'll

Olivia felt a strange sense of calm.

ia replied quietly, n

ed like it was spun from moonlight. She was on her way to a final

"Leaving so soon, sister? Don't you want to

nd Liam. "Liam is so generous. He understands what a woman of my standing requires

as also her own, and felt a flicker of pity. Sophia thoug

what was coming for Sophia in a marriage to the man Liam had been in t

igh, brittle sound. "Sav

f black cars lined the street outside the Reynolds mansion. Hundreds of guests, all of them rich and powerful, filled t

the news in the simple apartm

witnesses were a paralegal from Ethan' s company and a city clerk. Afterward, Eth

power over glamour. "One sister gets a prince, the other gets his shadow," one headline read. People talked about it at dinner parties, w

ts. She could hear the distant chatter of people on the street, people who thought they k

smooth, cool gla

o her reflection. "It

her own life. This time, she would fight