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erhaps the first time in her life, Candice was speechless, tears of humiliation becoming her onl

loe! Candice was worried

s the crowd of onlookers, past the curious fa

Isla Howe was trying to s

yes. Candice's favorite little shadow. In my previous life, she had stood he

ceptible smile curved my li

oughtful sound. "Oh.

d turned

and my voice hardened. "It

ruck her. Her already pale face turned chal

low and deliberate. She was a c

the tone of a false revelation. "You thought I had caught the two of you to

not even been introduced to society yet, secretly involved with

ly, frantically shaking her

ward to defend her sister. "Kloe, how can you

ping with contempt. "Some children

nd slipped my hand into the pocket of the jacket I had forc

xpensive handkerchief. In one corner, embroider

a's horrified face. "Isn't this yours? I remember your

ief as if it were a snake. H

as h

borrowed" it

though she was about to be sick. She had never imagined I would find it. It had been

gger pointed directly

d from suspicion to contempt as they looked

Candice, her eyes filled with desperate pleas for hel

knew C

better th

ndkerchief had been planted by her, she

on and her sister, t

ose he

, and her silence becam

eared on Isla's face was almost pitiful. The first

kerchief drift

ced to the room. "Someone got caught in the act and

k to Candice, my voice dr

demn me without a shred of evidence. You really do

hung in the air,

lan was utt

't destr

er own reputation while sacrificing

, whispering excitedly among themselves about the scandal engulfing