REBORN TO MARRY MY MAFIA ENEMY
But she went up to the room under the slates in the middle of the morning and stood in front of the easel, and the great gray window, and before she had quite decided to, she had picked up a brush.
It was not the pear branch. It was not a stone wall. It was a woman, standing at a window. She stood with her back half turned, in an old jersey with the sleeves pushed up, one hand resting low against her body, and the sea beyond her was a dark, shifting, silvered green. The woman had paint on her wrist and a heavy knot of hair coming down, and she looked, Sera thought, with a kind of astonishment, like somebody who had just arrived at the place she had been going to for years.