Monster Among the Roses
“I think you’re right. I remember another one having some guy leaning over a sleeping woman and one had a mermaid on it, which must be—”
“The Little Mermaid,” she murmured for me.
I nodded before saying, “Huh. I wonder why I never caught on to that before.”
“Well, the pictures look pretty contemporary. No one is wearing chainmail and suits of armor or big, flaring dresses with tiaras, which usually clues a person in to a fairy tale.”
“True,” I allowed before winking over at her. “Or I just needed someone like you around to notice the obvious for me.”
My praise made her blush. I turned another corner at a light and halfway down the block, we came to the address she’d given me, but even before