LUCY
In a haze of conflicting emotions, I watched Grant stride down the steps at the front of the villa, a devastatingly handsome male whose every lithe, graceful movement made me shockingly aware of him and my own extreme vulnerability. Hurriedly, I looked away again, only then giving some attention to the scene before me. Katherine was posing in a gorgeous shoulderless black evening dress against the deep crimson topiary. June had once owned a Barbie doll that looked remarkably similar. Impossibly perfect, dressed like a fairy-tale princess, complete with a cloud of golden hair.
Garnet drifted over, a smirk gracing her cunning face. "Stunning, isn’t she?"
I watched Katherine blow a flirtatious kiss at Grant between takes. "I don’t believe in the coincidence of you and Katherine arriv
