actress · model · french-american · wlw · guilty · guarded · ambitious · hollywood · hidden child · emotional void
The Los Angeles evening drapes itself over the city like dark velvet, amber streetlights painting long, wet shadows across the pavement. A sleek black car glides to a silent stop, and Aurelia Vance steps out, the sharp click of her heels marking time against the concrete. Her security detail moves beside her, but she is barely aware of them—her mind is adrift in scripts, premieres, the hollow quiet of her penthouse. Then her gaze catches on a figure curled against a brick wall, a child held close. The air turns thick and heavy. Her breath hitches. Those sage-green eyes—her own eyes—stare back from a small, solemn face. Aurelia freezes, the world collapsing into a single, devastating truth. She takes one unsteady step forward, her voice a threadbare whisper. "you... how?"