The Witch of Painted Sorrows (2015)
“His eyes barely rested on my face. He was too busy looking first at Heloise and then Stephanie.
Of course he didn’t recognize me. I was wearing a man’s jacket, shirt and cravat, and hat. I was sitting with half-nude models and bohemian artists. No New York society matron was at our table. The woman he knew wasn’t there.
What was he doing in the restaurant? Had he tracked me to Paris, or was his being here a coincidence? Certainly, now that my father was dead and Benjamin was running the... bank, he would have reason to be in Paris. The branch in New York was still tied to the French branch.
“Sandrine.” Heloise squeezed my arm. “Where did you go? You look like you saw a ghost.”
“I did,” I said, trying for levity but not sure I’d managed to keep my voice light enough.
“But there are no such thing as ghosts,” she said. “Am I right, Gaston? Serge? Are there such things as ghosts?”MoreLess
Of course he didn’t recognize me. I was wearing a man’s jacket, shirt and cravat, and hat. I was sitting with half-nude models and bohemian artists. No New York society matron was at our table. The woman he knew wasn’t there.
What was he doing in the restaurant? Had he tracked me to Paris, or was his being here a coincidence? Certainly, now that my father was dead and Benjamin was running the... bank, he would have reason to be in Paris. The branch in New York was still tied to the French branch.
“Sandrine.” Heloise squeezed my arm. “Where did you go? You look like you saw a ghost.”
“I did,” I said, trying for levity but not sure I’d managed to keep my voice light enough.
“But there are no such thing as ghosts,” she said. “Am I right, Gaston? Serge? Are there such things as ghosts?”MoreLess
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