6/1/2023 0 Comments The cruel prince series book 4Vivi’s eyes and the lightly furred points of her ears were, to Jude, not so much more strange than being the mirror version of another person.Īnd if sometimes she noticed the way the neighborhood kids avoided Vivi or the way their parents talked about her in low, worried voices, Jude didn’t think it was anything important. Vivi was different from other big sisters, but since seven-year-old Jude and Taryn were identical, with the same shaggy brown hair and heart-shaped faces, they were different, too. She laughed when it seemed as if the mouse was about to get eaten. And on the other end of the sofa, their older sister, Vivienne, stared at the television screen, her eerie, split-pupiled gaze fixed on the cartoon mouse as it ran from the cartoon cat. Her twin sister, Taryn, napped on the couch, curled around a blanket, thumb in her fruit-punch-stained mouth. Inside the house, Jude sat on the living room rug and ate fish sticks, soggy from the microwave and dragged through a sludge of ketchup. The man walked to the door and lifted his fist to knock. He simply appeared, as if stepping between one shadow and the next. No neighbor had seen him strolling along the sidewalk. He hadn’t parked a car, nor had he come by taxi. On a drowsy Sunday afternoon, a man in a long dark coat hesitated in front of a house on a tree-lined street.
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