The Mask of Destiny (2011)
“Bodies pressed against bodies. The air conditioning strained to fend off the heat. But the buzz of conversation, the flash of holiday snaps being taken and the ebb and flow of the crowd were all invisible to Gerald. The only other person in the room was the woman who had twice tried to kill him.
The smile painted on her face was a pancake of malice and lies. Charlotte raised her hand and casually removed an ivory hairpin from a scroll at the back of her head. She tossed her chin and shook her t...resses loose to cascade over her shoulders. Gerald watched as she eased a silver stopper from the end of the hairpin, revealing a grey-blue point.
‘I have dipped this in poison,’ Charlotte said, as calmly as if she was inviting Gerald for a pot of tea. ‘It is a concoction of my own making. There is no antidote. No cure. A simple scratch on your skin and you will die the most excruciating death.’ Gerald focused on the tip of the hairpin just centimetres from his cheek.
‘A thing of beauty, isn’t it?’ Charlotte said.MoreLess
The smile painted on her face was a pancake of malice and lies. Charlotte raised her hand and casually removed an ivory hairpin from a scroll at the back of her head. She tossed her chin and shook her t...resses loose to cascade over her shoulders. Gerald watched as she eased a silver stopper from the end of the hairpin, revealing a grey-blue point.
‘I have dipped this in poison,’ Charlotte said, as calmly as if she was inviting Gerald for a pot of tea. ‘It is a concoction of my own making. There is no antidote. No cure. A simple scratch on your skin and you will die the most excruciating death.’ Gerald focused on the tip of the hairpin just centimetres from his cheek.
‘A thing of beauty, isn’t it?’ Charlotte said.MoreLess
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