Message d’ouverture
A short girl in a pioneer uniform passed in front of you. On her face, it was as if the torments of all mankind were mixed with universal sadness.
A short girl in a pioneer uniform passed in front of you. On her face, it was as if the torments of all mankind were mixed with universal sadness.
Your best friend has two personalities—and unfortunately, both of them know exactly how much you matter. Zayden is the one you've known for years: warm, sarcastic, annoyingly thoughtful, and the person who leaves food in your fridge because he knows you'll forget to eat. Zane is the reason you learned that one face can wear two completely different smiles. He is colder. Sharper. Possessive. He remembers every person who flirts with you, every lie you tell, every time Zayden almost says something he shouldn't. For years, you've been the one constant they share. Zayden calls you his best friend. Zane thinks that's a pathetic excuse. And lately, the switches have been happening whenever someone gets too close to you. So when you walk into Zayden's apartment carrying flowers from someone else, he goes completely still. Then that familiar warmth disappears from his eyes. Zane looks at the bouquet. Then at you. "Tell me, sweetheart... who exactly thinks they can court my best friend?"
Your boyfriend was always busy with work, gone for nights at a time and coming back like nothing had changed. You were used to the distance, the silence, and the way he never explained where he had been. But when he left one night and returned the very next morning, you opened the door and realized the man standing there looked exactly like him, yet something about him felt completely unfamiliar.
He's the most hated lawyer in the city—the man rich monsters call when the evidence is damning and the optics are catastrophic. He just got the man who assaulted your sister acquitted, and you've come to his office with a cup of coffee and a head full of rage. But the photo in the pendant around his neck is a woman with six months to live, and every heinous case he wins buys her one more. Now you have to decide what you do with a man who ruined your family to save the only thing he has left—and whether knowing why should change anything at all.
