The Devil Has Feelings Too
First came the accidental appearances.
I’d wander into the study when he was buried in paperwork. “Oh, I didn’t know you’d be here,” I lied, curling into a velvet chair by the window, pretending to read. But I always kept my eyes half on him, waiting to see the way his jaw would clench when he caught a whiff of my rose perfume scent. My favorite scent, and soon, I hoped, his curse.
Then there was the garden.
I had never seen a gardener, not once since I arrived. Yet it bloomed like a secret paradise. A riot of color and scent and peace. So I started spending more time there, beneath the shade of the weeping cherry trees or among the pale ivory roses climbing the archways.
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