Chapter 17 Emily

• “What are you doing here?” to say I was shocked to see her would be an understatement. I could see her eyes blazing with contempt. She paused for a moment, scanning the room before her gaze settled on me.
• Emily walked in with a smile that only I knew the venom of. Her eyes sparkled with deceptive warmth as she moved closer. “Amber, my dear Cousin!”
• ‘Cousin?’ what does she mean by that? She wrapped her hands around me in a hug. I felt the tension in my own body and couldn’t even pretend to reciprocate. I was acutely aware of Martha’s watchful eyes from the corner of the room.