Maya’s tears spilled uncontrollably, hot streaks flooding down her cheeks as her breath hitched with fear and rage. “Why are you doing this?” she choked, her voice raw and weak.
Miranda’s eyes...cold, sharp, wicked...stayed locked on Maya’s trembling ones. A slow smile stretched across her face, taunting and cruel. “Why?” she repeated in a whisper that crawled across the room like smoke. “I’m not here to cause trouble, little Luna. I’m here to tell you the trouble coming for you. And just like the past, you rejected him… but your offspring paid the price.”
Maya’s heart crashed painfully in her chest. Offspring. Diva. Her baby. Every cell in her body screamed at the word.
Miranda wasn’t lying...not entirely...but she wasn’t telling the truth either. She twisted the story, mixing truth an
