My mother threw scalding soup in my face for saying no to her stepdaughter. “Give her all your things — or get out!”

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“Then move fast.”

Marcus nodded once.

“They won’t expect this.”

Nora touched the necklace resting against her throat.

“No,” she said softly. “They never really saw me.”

When her mother and Violet returned from shopping later that week, the house looked wrong immediately.continue reading …