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She saw him first. Of course she did. Lily saw everything first — processed it, reported

The waiting room at St. Clement’s Medical Center smelled like disinfectant and bad coffee and the

The rain had been falling since morning, the kind that doesn’t announce itself — no thunder,

The cake was white with gold trim and stood four tiers high on a table draped

The veil was still tangled in my hair when I slid under the bed, laughing. It

She saw him first. Of course she did. Lily saw everything first — processed it, reported

She heard them before she saw them. Not their voices — they weren’t speaking. She heard

The Hartwell Mall jewelry district smelled like money and cold air conditioning. Glass cases gleamed under

PART 2: The Woman in Gold The word tore straight through her. The woman stared at

She took it fast. One motion — hand closing around the loaf, pulling it away from