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Seventeen
The last of the guests had finally left, and an eerie silence settled over the Lancaster estate. The once-lively ballroom now felt hollow, the air thick with something I couldn’t quite name. The weight of the night pressed down on me as I stood in my wedding gown, feeling more like an outsider than ...
