No hand mirrors with pearl handles. No gilded trifold vanities. No cracked bathroom medicine cabinets. If it reflected a face, she wouldn’t touch it.
When she looked at him, she saw nothing . No shadows, no echoes, no sorrows clinging to his shoulders like a second coat. Just him. Miras - Nora Roberts
It wasn’t vanity. She was, by most accounts, easy to look at—honey-colored hair that curled at the ends, eyes the deep green of a stormy sea, a smattering of freckles across a nose that turned up just slightly. No, the hate went deeper. It was the knowing she hated. No hand mirrors with pearl handles
Mira’s skin prickled. “I don’t buy mirrors.” If it reflected a face, she wouldn’t touch it
The first time it happened, she was seven. She’d toddled into her grandmother’s dusty attic, drawn by the scent of lavender and old paper. A full-length mirror stood in the corner, its silver backing tarnished into swirling constellations. When she looked into it, her own reflection smiled back. But behind that reflection, like a ghost in a photograph, stood a boy in a blue coat. He was crying. And Mira felt the cold knot of his fear settle in her own belly.
He turned. And Mira’s heart did a strange, stuttering thing. He was tall, built like a man who worked with his hands, with a sharp jaw and eyes the color of good bourbon—warm amber flecked with gold. But it wasn’t his looks that stole her breath. It was the absence.