That this girl didn’t know she was beautiful staggered me. She could have been a Vogue model any day. I said a cautious, if surprised, hello. She nodded her head and said “ciao” back. “I’m surprised to find you here, Aurora,” I said, because she made no attempt to start the conversation or to tel...
The tears seemed stuck behind her eyes. She could not cry and she wondered, the way mothers always do, where she had gone wrong. This room contained Felix’s entire life up until the time he’d left the château at the age of twenty-three. His clothes were still hanging in the closet with his shoes ...