Chapter 54 The Unexpected Face

• The figure smiled thinly, a smile so different from any Rania had witnessed before, full of a cunning long hidden behind a mask of friendship so convincing.
• Rania stared at that face closely, trying to find any small clue that could distinguish it from the Lia she'd known all this time—a different scar, an unusual way of standing—but the resemblance was so perfect it made her feel even more betrayed by her own eyes, which had been unable to detect a deception this big earlier.
• "Hello, dear Rania," greeted that voice calmly, a voice she knew so well, which had once been a source of comfort in the darkest times of her life. "Sorry to surprise you like this."