Kiss Of An Alpha King
’ They didn’t toss them out, instead, they’d painstakingly piece them together again like expensive jigsaw puzzles, and used gold as the glue.
The console table was about nine feet long, and all along the surface there were several such pieces. A few dishes, earthenware and colored pottery, a few vases that I didn’t need to be an expert in to know were Ming, and some dishes with Japanese themes—the rolling surf, a bonsai tree, a dragon.
Even as I wondered what that said about Declan, why he chose to celebrate something that was broken, chose to cherish it, I peered at my son who was watching cartoons.