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He looks around at the kitchen. “We couldn’t keep you out of here,” he says, “your mother, the maids, or me. You always wanted to come in and pull out all of the pots and pans. Pretend you were cooking. Or just bang on them.”

I just stare at him, bewildered. I was only five when we went to live with David – it was certainly old enough to remember something. How did I remember nothing?

Alden indulges me for a moment and then nods back towards the

living room. “Come,” he says. “I want to introduce you to some

people.”

I follow, still staring around at the house. My house, where I lived,

as a small child. As I consider it, I realize that they are not unhappy

memories – I have no feelings of fear or trauma attached to this

place.

suppose, is a

the sitting room, my guards following

I’m surprised to

a boy at her side and a

like to introduce you to Tristin, my wife.” I

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one mentioned to me that my father had remarried?

you do?” I ask, fumbling over the

She’s a beautiful woman, petite, with dark hair and large hazel eyes. Her full pink lips are pursed with

Alden says, gesturing towards the children, “Is my son Romulus and my daughter Estrella. Your…ah.

really–dark hair, delicate pale skin, pretty hazel eyes. The baby is also very sweet, smiling up at me in her white bonnet. As I look at the three of them,

suit suggest that he’s part of their group as well. I look down at myself, dressed in sapphire blue. Perhaps she’s sending me a

with distaste. I sigh, seeing that this isn’t going to

easy road.

doing my best to give them all a smile as I

chair by the coffee table. We’re silent as a maid brings in a silver

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