"Another courting gift from Nellie?" Rayne looked up from her vanity table, seeing her understudy, Willow. Willow had long blonde hair, deep green eyes and pale skin. She wore a snowy white dress with patterns of roses on the hem of her skirt. In her hands was a parcel wrapped in dark blue wrapping and tied with a sparkly silver ribbon.

"Yes ma'am."

"Put it on the table, I'll look at it after you leave."

Willow did just that and left the fifteen year old's dressing room. Upon hearing the door close, Rayne lowered her hairbrush from her dark black and blue locks. She stood up from her vanity and went to retrieve the parcel that was on the table. Untying the ribbon on the box, she opened it and gently gasped.

Inside the parcel was a blue velvet box as she carefully took it out and placed it on her lap. She opened the velvet box and in the lighting, sparkled a few pieces of jewelry. The jewelry was a matching set of a necklace and earrings.

The necklace was made out of pure gold, with a ruby shaped as a heart, surrounded by little diamonds and pearls. It was in a princess style as it would hang down to the tops of her breasts.

The earrings were also made out of pure gold, but with a pearl shaped as a heart, surrounded by rubies and diamonds. They were in a chandelier style as they would hang from her ears.

Rayne was amazed by the little gift as she smirked, her smoky quartz eyes shimmering slightly. She closed the lid of the box and decided to bring it home with her after her practice for the new production they were planning. Naturally, since she was the Prima-donna, she got the role of Marguerite in the opera house's production of Faust.

She walked out of her dressing room, wearing a light blue dress. Once Rayne went to the stage, she sat down on the rock she would use while singing the famous aria. She began to sing her song.

"What do I see here?

Who could have left this casket?

I don't dare touch it.

Though the key is beside it..

If I were to open it...

my hand is shaking, why?

Opening it would do no harm, I suppose."

She unlocked the casket and saw the jewels her role would wear, acting surprised.

"My god! What brilliant jewels..

Is this a dream that deceives me, can they be real?

My eyes have never seen riches such as these!"

She examined them all, her eyes bright and sparkling.

"If I dared only for a moment..

To try on these earrings.

Oh, and here by chance next to a casket is a mirror!

Who could resist this any longer?"

Rayne picked up the mirror, examining her face through it and smiling upon seeing herself.

"Ah, I laugh to see myself so beautiful in this mirror..

Is it you, Marguerite, is it you?

Answer answer answer me quickly!

No no! It's no longer you!

No... no, it's no longer your face;

It's the daughter of a king, it's no longer you..

That one must bow to as she passes!

Ah, if only he was here!

If he should see me thus..

Like a lady, ah!, would find me so beautiful.."

She kept singing her role perfectly as she always did, never stopping as her voice was powerful.

After she finished singing her role as Marguerite, she walked out from the stage as she went back to her dressing room. Because of her beauty, she used it to her advantage and to rise up where she was now. Taking out a small rose-gold mirror, she applied a bit of rose red lipstick and dabbed it onto her lips, making them more tempting and aching to be kissed.

She smiled faintly. Her family's looks were always prized by some people.

The girl then picked up the box of jewelry she had gotten from Nellie and left her dressing room with it after putting on her white shawl around her fair creamy shoulders. Once she walked out of the opera house, she noticed a gold carriage pulled with four white horses.

Inside of the carriage was Nellie. The footman opened the door to the carriage, allowing her to see the interior. It was made out of deep red satin and silk.. "After you." He said to the girl as she went inside. She heard the door close and felt the carriage moving.

Nellie and Rayne were silent until she spoke up. "So, do you like the jewelry I got you? daddy got someone to make them special for you~" she said as Rayne smiled at the gesture. Although she would've preferred blue and silver, she could see the hard work Carew did for his daughter's crush.

"I love them. Thank you."

Rayne planned to wear them during a ball or somewhere formal so she could wear the jewelry she had been given. After all, makeup and clothes were just the tools she used to make men and sometimes women fall for her. It lowered their defenses too, they never knew what hit them.

As they were talking, Rayne could feel herself becoming relaxed as she told Nellie all the things she wanted to know about her and about what she liked. She didn't mind it.

"Um.. Nellie? This isn't where my apartment is."

"No lover of mine is going to live at an apartment! So, I am bringing you to my mansion."

Rayne blinked twice until the realization hit her like a ton of bricks. She knew about what Carew had been doing from what her father had told her and began playing her cards right since she learned about her mother being attacked by a werewolf.

Once they arrived, Nellie stepped out first, helping Rayne down as they walked inside. The singer smiled softly since This would be fun for her..

When you mess with a Nightingale, you get the claws.