Amelie
“Please, Amelie, you have to listen to me. It’s about Raphael. He is in danger.”
I took several steps toward her. I wanted to grab her hair and drag her out of here. How dare she! But as I drew closer I noticed the finer details that I hadn't seen from the distance. There was an angry red circle around her neck and her left side of face was swollen. When I met her eyes, I saw that they were dark circles under her blue eyes. She was nowhere near the same woman I had met at the night of the ball, nor was she the woman who had come to my home. This woman looked lost and beaten up by life.
“Listen, Victoria, I don’t want to hear a word from you, okay?” No matter how pitiful she looked, I knew she was a snake and they never forget to strike with their poison. “Just get the hell out of
