Chapter 222
- VALENTINA
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- I stood in the main foyer that afternoon, hands busy with a vase of fresh roses the maid had just brought in. White ones mostly, a few red mixed in. I arranged the stems slow, turning them this way and that, like the flowers mattered more than anything else. Really I was listening. The staff moved around me quiet, trays clinking, footsteps soft on the marble. I caught pieces of their talk while I worked.