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Chapter 99: Cartography
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Scent of Obsession Chapter 99: Cartography
Chapter 99: CartographyElena's POV She'd been mapping the castle for three years. Third floor east corridor. Camera at the end. Twelve second rotation. Gap between sweeps is four seconds which wasn't enough for most things but was enough for one specific thing she needed it for. Kitchen entrance. Staff door. Bolted from inside after nine PM. The bolt was old. The mechanism was worn in the specific way of something that had been opened and closed ten thousand times over twenty years and had developed a particular give in the third click that she'd discovered by accident eighteen months ago and had been thinking about ever since. The north wall. Twelve feet. Old stone. Enough purchase for someone who had been doing the specific exercises she'd been doing quietly in her room every morning for two years under the cover of what she'd told the staff was meditation. It wasn't meditation. It was preparation. She sat on the bench in the garden in the two hours of afternoon sun and sk
Scent of Obsession Chapter 98: Two of Them
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Scent of Obsession Chapter 97: Sunday
Chapter 97: SundayMargaret's POVShe was in the sitting room when she heard the car.She wasn't expecting anyone.She didn't need to be expecting anyone to know that a car pulling up outside her residence on a Sunday morning at eleven AM meant something was about to happen that she hadn't been informed about in advance which meant Damien was involved because Damien was the only person in her life who delivered facts instead of preparation.She put her book down.Straightened her jacket.Waited.The bell rang.She went to the door herself because it was Sunday and the staff had the morning off, and she opened it.Damien.Liora Kane beside him.And in front of them.Two small girls.Margaret looked at them.They looked at her.The same face.That was the first thing.The same face on two small people standing side by side in front of her door on a Sunday morning. The same jaw. The same dark hair. The same height. The same everything except the eyes.One pair grey.One pair navy blue.
Scent of Obsession Chapter 96: Somewhere Else
Chapter 96: Somewhere Else Stramgers POV The garden was the same as always. High walls. Old stone. The grey of a country that had decided long ago that beauty was something that happened inside rather than outside and had built accordingly. She sat on the bench near the east wall where the sun came through for approximately two hours in the afternoon and she'd learned in five years to be there for those two hours because those two hours were the closest thing to hers that existed in this life. Mikhail was on the grass. Ten years old and serious in the way of children who had seen too much too early and had responded by becoming very still and very watchful. He sat cross legged with a book open in his lap that he wasn't reading because he was watching her the way he always watched her when she was having a quiet day. She had a lot of quiet days. She picked up her sketchbook. Pencil moving across the page without her deciding what to draw. She never decided anymore. Her hand
Scent of Obsession Chapter 95: Arrival
Chapter 95: ArrivalDamien's POVThe call came on a Tuesday.Hale. Seven AM."She's ready," he said.Three words.Damien was already dressed.He'd been dressed since five thirty.He put his coffee down."I'll be there," he said."There's something else," Hale said carefully.Damien waited."Victor wants to be the one to bring her to the airport," Hale said. "He's asking for that. Just that. He hands her over at the gate and that's it."Damien looked at the city.Thought about a letter.About *be patient with her grief.*About a man who had done terrible things and raised someone extraordinary and was now standing at the end of what raising her meant."Yes," he said.Hale was quiet for a moment."You're sure," he said."He raised her for four years," Damien said quietly. "He can walk her to the gate."A pause."Okay," Hale said. "Flight lands at three forty PM. Terminal four."He hung up.Stood at the window.Three forty PM.Eight hours and forty minutes.He picked up his phone.Called
Scent of Obsession Chapter 94: Pancakes
Chapter 94: PancakesZara's POVDaddy's kitchen was bigger than theirs.She'd noticed this before but she noticed it again now standing in the doorway in her socks because Mama had said shoes off at the door and she'd taken them off but her socks had a hole in the left toe and she was hoping nobody would notice.The kitchen had a window that was the whole wall almost.The whole city was outside it.She liked that.In their kitchen you could see the building across the street and sometimes the man who sat in his window reading and sometimes a pigeon but mostly just the building.Here you could see everything."Stop standing in the doorway," Mama said from behind her.She went in.Daddy was at the stove.He had an apron on.She stared at the apron."You have an apron," she said."Yes," he said."It's blue," she said."It is.""Mama doesn't have an apron.""I know.""Mama gets things on her shirt.""Zara," Mama said."It's true," Zara said. "The tomato thing.""We don't need to discuss t
Scent of Obsession Chapter 8: Exposure
Chapter 8: ExposureThe lotion bottle had about three weeks left.Liora thought as she stood in front of the bathroom mirror at 8AM, pressing the pump slowly, watching the pale cream curl into her palm. Lavender and strawberry. She'd been using it for a while. had Bought it from a small vendor at a
Scent of Obsession Chapter 7: Withdrawal
Chapter 7: Withdrawal Damien Voss was exhausted. Not the dull kind of exhaustion coffee could fix. Not the manageable sort that came after long meetings and longer nights. This was sharper. More dangerous. The kind that sat behind his eyes and made every sound in the room feel like pressure ag
Scent of Obsession Chapter 6: Patterns
Chapter 6: Patterns By the fifth night, Damien Voss had developed habits. Liora notice because she was beginning to develop some too The car arrived outside the bookstore at exactly 10:15 every evening now. Marcus never needed to come inside anymore; he simply waited near the curb while she close
Scent of Obsession Chapter 5: Routine
Chapter 5: RoutineLiora was starting to hate elevators.Specifically private elevators.The silent one's.The kind that carried you to a specific penthouse. Namely Damien Voss's penthouseShe stared at her
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