Goddess
“Riley denies all charges and has denounced the tribunal as a ‘show-trial and farce’.
BBC News Filming started the next evening at eight. First, though, I had my makeover. It emerged that Crystal had been a make-up artist in another life; surrounded by the tools of her trade she became a different woman, capable and quick.
The body glitter she’d talked about at dinner was actually a discreet silver shimmer. My eyes were outlined in black kohl, my hair styled in soft waves. I wore a cli...nging indigo silk dress. When I looked in the mirror, I had undergone a metamorphosis. I saw a stranger: elegant, chilly, glittering. But this costuming was different from the lipsticks and party frocks I’d bought with the credit marks from my allowance in the cult. I wasn’t a little girl playing dressing-up any more. This had to be real.
‘Told you, didn’t I?’ said Scarlet with lazy satisfaction. ‘Now you’re a force to be reckoned with.’ Aiden didn’t say anything when he saw me, though I felt the brush of his gaze on my skin.MoreLess
BBC News Filming started the next evening at eight. First, though, I had my makeover. It emerged that Crystal had been a make-up artist in another life; surrounded by the tools of her trade she became a different woman, capable and quick.
The body glitter she’d talked about at dinner was actually a discreet silver shimmer. My eyes were outlined in black kohl, my hair styled in soft waves. I wore a cli...nging indigo silk dress. When I looked in the mirror, I had undergone a metamorphosis. I saw a stranger: elegant, chilly, glittering. But this costuming was different from the lipsticks and party frocks I’d bought with the credit marks from my allowance in the cult. I wasn’t a little girl playing dressing-up any more. This had to be real.
‘Told you, didn’t I?’ said Scarlet with lazy satisfaction. ‘Now you’re a force to be reckoned with.’ Aiden didn’t say anything when he saw me, though I felt the brush of his gaze on my skin.MoreLess
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