Mirellie
My breath caught, freezing painfully in my chest.
Please… Moon Goddess, no.
The last thing I wanted was to spend every single day under Calliope’s control. I knew exactly what she meant by “teaching” me. I had lived with her my entire life. I knew how cruel she could be when no one was looking.
It would not be lessons. It would be humiliation.
Calliope had spent years correcting the way I walked, the way I sat, the way I laughed, the way I ate. Everything about me had always been wrong in her eyes.
Too loud, too awkward, too fat and too much.
And now she was acting like a good sister when we both knew it was because she wanted access to me inside this house to make my life miserable.
My stomach twisted painfully at the thought.
“Dear,” Calliope continued sweetly, her fing
