The Betrayer's Inheritance

of her borrowed dress, a soft blue t

event of the season, and Charles "Charlie" Bl

es, hovered nearby, hi

ackwoods... an association c

t in the South, now just echoed

with her gentle hands and knowledge of old folk remedies, had been the secr

cket, its faint scent of dried

– all five of them, excluding Charlie Jr. for a moment – mo

"auctio

rity. The Blackwood boys, one by one, s

dance with Miss H

e pleasure of her com

rn. Brittany, her stepsister, smirked from ac

pped forward, his sm

nd perhaps more th

He was different. He wouldn

art hopeful. "I choose M

od party, everyone expected an ann

mpagne flute in hand, dra

tiful fiancé

in applause. Scar

acid. "Oh, Scarlett, darli

surrounded her, their f

e named Ethan, sneered. "Brittany told us how you acted so

put you in your pl

something was slip

in a cheap motel room, ca

next day. Scarlett Hayes, dishe

ce was a mask of

er hopes – all shattered. It was a

spair, the feeling of drow