Epilogue: A month later
“THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR coming,” I said, gripping my sisters’ hands and staring into their strangely brown eyes. Despite everything we had gone through to get to this point, and the fear in my heart that they would be discovered today, I was still intensely glad they were here with me. I didn’t think I could do this without them.
“We wouldn’t have missed it for the world,” Bella said, squeezing my hand and smiling from behind a face I didn’t recognize.
Courtney ran her hand through her straight, dark hair. “I still don’t think we needed to come in full disguises like this.”
I rolled my eyes for what felt like the tenth time. “Court. Please. Things with the Council are still super prickly, and if they, even for a minute, realize I’m not Dad’s only heir...”
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