A group of people were pressing in on a woman who seemed frigid and uninterested in any of them in a large room.

Celia pressed her fingers together, and a cryptic grin formed on her lips. "Do you genuinely want me to put on this outfit?"

"Absolutely! No one is more fitting than you. Besides, your mother relied on that kind of dress to…" a woman said.

However, her sentence was interrupted by Celia, who reached up and tugged at her collar.

Startled, the woman ...