Chapter 214: What is it you want.
The air within the garden was noticeably cooler, heavy with the intoxicating scent of night-blooming jasmine, damp earth, and the curated perfumes of a thousand exotic blossoms. The knot of tension between her shoulder blades finally began to loosen. She was on home soil now, controlled, familiar ground.
"Have a pleasant outing, dear sister?" just as she took her first step, she heard an unexpected voice.
The voice was sweet, melodic, and laced with a venom so familiar it made Victoria's pulse stutter for a heartbeat before it was consumed by a flare of white-hot irritation.
' Well if this isn't a suprise, of all the people I had to meet first, it just had to be you.'
She stood in place, her spine turning to iron, refusing to look back at the figure who had just stepped from the shadows of a towering flower bush.
