E L E A N O R His defensive expression, a mask of wariness, visibly cooled, replaced by a flicker of recognition, a softening around the edges of his hard-set jaw. “Yes, come in.” The words were gruff, but the underlying tone was one of acceptance, almost expectation. With those words, he stepped inside, ushering us in, as though he had known Bernadette or had been expecting our arrival all along. I didn’t want to know the intricacies of their connection, the history that led us to this dark corner of the market. All I wanted was to get this over with, to find the answers we sought, and to return to the comfort of the castle, to the familiar, if sometimes stifling, grandeur of my life. Comfort? The word tasted bitter on my tongue. Who was I kidding? There was no true comfort there, not when Perseus, my husband, the man I had married, believed I was merely a fan girl, an inconvenient attachment, rather than his wife, his equal. He saw a stranger, a face without a name, a love wi
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