Hidden in Plain Sight

My heart began pounding so loudly that I could barely hear anything else.

“After the accident,” she continued casually, as if she were discussing the weather rather than confessing to deception on a massive scale, “I obviously couldn’t keep my old face. Too many people would recognize me. So this face,” she gestured to herself lightly, “is not the one I was born with. It’s just another mask. I cre