Chapter 13: The Ghost's Daughter

We married on the first day of spring in the chapel under the Kane estate. I chose it deliberately. Same stone. Same nine hundred candles. Same room where a girl in a white dress got her mother killed and her name taken. I walked in through the same door. My mother gave me away. She wore navy, and gold at her throat, and she did not limp anymore because I'd flown in a surgeon from Zurich and made it very clear how the operation was going to go. Nikolai waited at the altar in black, and when...