{Sequel to Smoke & Mirrors}


10 months since Sapphire lost her family.
8 months since she escaped the clutches of a monster.

She might have escaped, but she did not leave undamaged. She knows she will never be the same again.

Her soul still yearns for revenge for her family, she wants to charge into the storm.

But what she does not know is that the storm is raging towards her.

Fangs and Roses

I bit my lip as I stared down at my hands, the truth of what he said bearing heavy on my shoulders.

/"I know I may probably never look the way I did-/"

I wrenched my hands from his grip before forcing my eyes to look into his for the first time since he had left the Healers’ Room. Swallowing hard as I took in what Damien had forced Amelia to do… a slash running diagonally down his face, cutting across the bridge of his nose before stopping at his jawline. He tilted his head as he looked at me, as if my reaction just confirmed what he had just said.

/"Do you think the fact that Damien damaged your looks is why I cannot look at you? Do you think that I am that shallow?/"

My hand took his and placed it under my shirt, letting him feel the grooves of my scars.

/"Do I repulse you, Alexander? Does that fact that my skin was marred disgust you?/"

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