Kai's words struck me like a bolt of lightning.

Instinctively, I turned toward the car window. In its blurry reflection, my heavily made-up face appeared ghoulish, grotesquely warped—those glaring red lips especially, so vivid they made me look like something undead.

Luca wasn't exaggerating. I did look like a ghost.

So terrifying, in fact, that even I could barely stand the sight of myself.

What depths of desperation must this man have ...