Jaqueline sat cross-legged in her favorite chair in the darkest corner of the study. She had always felt at home surrounded by all of the dust-covered tomes left to molder out of the watchful eyes of everyone else.>/i>
When she heard the familiar footsteps enter the room, she seemed to unfurl herself from the darkness. Shifting so she sat in the chair like the proper lady she was supposed to be, she waited for Julian to appear at the end of the aisle in front of her, ready with the feigned surprise that one might expect from disturbing an engrossed reader.
She knew why he had come, though she didn't plan to make it any easier on him.
When she heard the familiar footsteps enter the room, she seemed to unfurl herself from the darkness. Shifting so she sat in the chair like the proper lady she was supposed to be, she waited for Julian to appear at the end of the aisle in front of her, ready with the feigned surprise that one might expect from disturbing an engrossed reader.
She knew why he had come, though she didn't plan to make it any easier on him.
11-15-2022, 12:06 AM
