"My public name is Talia. But my birth name is Shelli-ann Albertha. Nice to meet you." She introduced herself in a hushed voice with her finger to her lips.
After a moment of stunned silence, I replied, "It's nice to meet you too. Are you the perhaps the heir to the Albertha family?" I asked, whispering.
She nodded in reply. "You can call me Shelli."
Just one week after learning Andrei's secret, on my first day of work, I met another Undercode family heiress. I was prepared to live with the secret, but I certainly wasn’t prepared to deal with the aftermath so soon. Then, I realized that I chose to carry this heavy burden of a secret only one week ago, but they have been living with it their whole lives under our noses. Now that I was living in Andrei's world, I was bound to meet others
