For the past twelve years, she had lived within the organization, under its strict surveillance. Like everyone else there, she had no name of her own—only a codename. Just like Eight, her codename was Poppy. She didn't know where this codename came from, only that it belonged to her. For all those years, Poppy had been her name, while Joyce Sterling was merely two words sealed away in her memory.
After living so long without the affection of family or the warmth of love, she had become like a machine, wanting and desiring nothing. That was why she was so strange. She could act the part of a sister for the Sterling Family and pretend to be an ordinary girl to the rest of the world. But with Damien Valerius, there were always so many exceptions. She didn't know if he would still accept her after learning the truth—that she wasn't Aurora Sterling.
