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pes edeyim deme—
yolun daha var
Şu anda okuduğu kitaplar
manipulation at its peak
“If someone is about to cause you harm,” she went on coolly, “this will stop them. All you need to do is spray a bit on their face.”
“Like you did to me?” Scarlett asked.
“My perfume merely opened your eyes so you would see what you might need.”
She knew how crippling bleakness could feel. If not for Scarlett’s determination to protect her sister at all costs, she might have given up long ago.
She probably should have. What was that saying, No love ever goes unpunished?
In many ways, loving Tella was a source of constant pain. No matter how hard Scarlett tried to care for her sister, it was never enough to fill the hole their mother had left. And it wasn’t as if Tella really loved Scarlett back. If she did, she wouldn’t have risked everything Scarlett wanted by dragging her to this miserable game against her will.
It shouldn’t have mattered. They were only earrings. But they weren’t only earrings. They were scarlets.
Scarlet stones for Scarlett, her mother had said. A final present before she had left. Scarlett had known there was no such thing as a scarlet stone, that they were really just colored bits of glass, but that had never mattered.
They were a piece of her mother, and a reminder that Governor Dragna had once been a different man. Your father gave me these, she said, because scarlet was my favorite color.
Julian's words rushed back. Her sister's name was Scarlett's first clue. And other people had been given the same exact clue.
'It's all a game.' Scarlett remembered the warning from the girl on the unicycle. This wasn't real.
But it felt that way.