PART 1 The clock behind the bar read 11:47 PM when Ellie Wells finally stopped moving. Eight hours. Eight hours of balancing trays, memorizing orders, smiling through exhaustion that had settled so deep into her bones she’d stopped noticing it was there. Her lower back complained with every step, but she’d learned to ignore it…
PART 1 I layered the concealer thick enough to pass for a mask and told myself nobody would notice. I was wrong. For eight months, I had been invisible inside Giovanni Moretti’s Manhattan mansion. That was the skill — the one thing the job required above everything else. Move through rooms like air. Polish surfaces…
PART 1 The dress was a mistake. Vanessa had known it the moment she’d let Jessica zip her into it — burgundy velvet, unforgiving cut, clinging to every curve she had spent years trying to hide. Jessica had called it “bold.” Vanessa called it evidence that she had officially lost her mind. She smoothed the…
PART 1 The coffee had gone cold an hour ago. I kept my hands wrapped around the paper cup anyway, needing something to hold. The café in Coral Gables hummed with the particular energy of a place where people came to be seen rather than to actually drink overpriced lattes, and I was invisible inside…
PART 1 The DeLuca estate wasn’t a home. It was a mausoleum of marble and polished mahogany, and I was just a ghost in a lilac uniform. My job was simple: remain unseen, keep the dust at bay, and never interrupt the man who owned the city. Matteo DeLuca didn’t look up when I replaced…
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