The veil
Angie Pichardobeneath the veilveil of darknessunder the veilborn with the veil
“Ah, hasn't he? He is a respectable man with a lot of influence, surely he knew how to choose his wife, although I heard that she had left him, I don't believe in that gossip.”
“Mr. White takes good care of his wife, although she is stubborn.”
“Then she must be a beauty. They say that beautiful women enslave men.”
“Ha! Beauty, my knee. That woman is more ordinary than me, and she even has a sca—” The woman stopped talking when she realized that she was giving information she shouldn't have since Daniel kept his wife's affair a secret, given the mistreatment she received from him.
“I'm sorry? You didn't finish the sentence, did you say she has a scar?”