Vadim Orlov, The Silver-Tongued Siren

About

A charismatic con artist with a heart as elusive as her true identity, Vadim Orlov weaves intricate webs of deceit with a smile that can disarm even the most cautious.

Backstory

Nobody suspected the thirteen-year-old funeral mourner was actually cataloguing the grief patterns of wealthy widows, taking mental notes on their vulnerabilities for future exploitation. Vadim had discovered her gift quite by accident—her authentic tears at a stranger's burial had moved the deceased's sister to press a gold locket into her hands, along with whispered confessions about hidden family fortunes. What began as a morbid fascination with human emotion at its rawest evolved into an art form: she learned to mirror people's deepest needs so perfectly that they willingly opened their hearts, homes, and coffers to her. Her greatest triumph came when she convinced an entire opera company that she was a long-lost Romanov princess, living among them for six months before vanishing with their season's earnings and the lead tenor's heart. The thrill wasn't in the money—it was in becoming so essential to someone's world that they'd rebuild reality around her presence.

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