Chapter 37 - Enough Death

It had been a week since Amanda had died. I had stayed indoors since coming home, home? Funny how a place that had someone I had only met a few months before was considered home. I had spoken to no one, seen even less. Lucis being the only exception. That was going to change soon though, Lucis had come home one after one of his business deals, an envelope in his hand. He had handed it to me still sealed. I opened it without a word and read it, soon after I left it on the counter. My choice had already been made, but Lucis wasn’t going to let it stay that way.

Today I stood in front of the mirror looking at myself in the black dress that Lucis had bought me for the day. As I stood there I had images of memories flashing through my mind. I slowly wiped away the tears that started to fall and tied my hair up in a messing bun and started to do my makeup, using as little as possible seeing as id probably spend most of the day wiping at my face.