That made me smile. “’Villain’ is a bit too strong a word for Etienne Hart, but I appreciate the sentiment.”
Tony kissed my hands, still kneeling beside me. “It’s good to see you smile.” He laid his cheek upon my hands. “All I’ve ever wanted was for you to be happy.”
It sounded so close to what Jonathan had said a few months back that my heart hurt. I wanted to kiss Tony’s hair, but I couldn’t really bend over that far, so I just smoothed it.
I wished the same for him; I always had. But how might we ever be happy when a monster in human form stalked us?
* * *
To my complete surprise, Jonathan Diamond came to see us the next day, in the middle of the afternoon. He sat in his carriage whilst Tony and I went out to see him.
Jonathan’s carriage was white, with the Holy Symbol of their Fa
