|Carmella|
I don’t even know if our parents still see Camilla and me as their children. Their past decisions made it clear—we were tools to them, nothing more. Something useful until it wasn’t. And when it wasn’t? They could discard one of us without a second thought.
But...did they hate me so much that they’d go so far as to hire someone to kill Gerard? My breath caught as the weight of that possibility sank in. Was his death my fault? Did he die...because of me?
A wave of guilt washed over me, cold and suffocating. If it were true—if this was their doing—then every moment since Gerard’s death had been built on a foundation of lies.
“You see, Gerard was an obstacle.”
Marcus’s voice sliced through my thoughts like a blade, jerking me back to the present. My eyes snapped to him, lo
