Eve's POVThe honeymoon was over and it was time to face Devin's grandfather.The Cresswell estate made my family home look like a modest cottage.We drove through iron gates that must have weighed several tons each and up a gravel driveway lined with ancient oaks whose gnarled branches formed a canopy overhead, blocking out the late afternoon sun. The house itself was a stone colossus that sprawled across the landscape like a crouching beast. It had turrets. Actual turrets as if someone in the Cresswell family had looked at a medieval castle and thought, yes, that seems appropriately intimidating."Your grandfather lives in a fortress," I said."He would have preferred a volcano, but the zoning laws wouldn't allow it."I laughed, but the sound died in my throat as we pulled up to the front entrance. A butler in full formal attire opened the car door, his spine ramrod straight, his expression so carefully blank it
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