VELVET SHADOWS ~
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Prologue
Eight years ago
The rain was loud that night-angry, wild, drumming against the shattered windows like fists desperate to get in. But inside the house, something even louder had already passed. A scream. A gunshot. And then... silence.
Evelyn curled herself tighter beneath the grand piano, her knees pressed to her chest, her trembling fingers clinging to the cracked porcelain rabbit Mama had given her on her fifth birthday. Its ear was broken now. Just like everything else.
She didn't cry.
She had learned not to.
The living room reeked of smoke and metal. Shadows flickered across the walls as flames licked at the edges of her once-bright world. Blood-thick and fresh-trickled down one of the ivory keys above her. Drip. Drip. Drip. A cruel lullaby.
Footsteps echoed. Slow. Heavy. Deliberate.
A figure stopped in front of the piano, crouching low. His eyes met hers through the darkness-cold, unreadable, and glowing like coals. His black glove reached forward, not to hurt, but to hush.
"You saw nothing," he said, voice like gravel and ash.
She nodded, not trusting her voice. Not trusting herself.
The man lingered a moment longer, then rose and disappeared into the fire.
Evelyn didn't move. Not until the rabbit slipped from her fingers.
And even then, she remembered everything.
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