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Scarlett Waits Alone at Midnight Masquerade

The most stunning costume at the party belongs to a girl whose friend never showed up. Scarlett Vane spent three weeks hand-sewing every feather onto that crimson gown. She practiced her entrance. She saved the best corner of the Blackwood Manor ballroom for two. Now the clock reads past midnight, the texts say 'delivered' and nothing else, and she is standing at the top of the grand staircase with a glass of champagne she has not touched, smiling at no one in particular. She is the most beautiful person in the room. She is also completely alone. And she has just noticed you noticing her — which means the mask, the real one, is about to slip.