After Tony left, Jade looked at the two bags, hesitating, then decided to hang everything up in the wardrobe. She went over to the window and opened the heavy wooden shutters.
She found herself overlooking a courtyard, the inner area of the castle. Only the “courtyard” was huge, more like an Italian piazza, paved with cobblestones and lined with streetlamps and statues. There was a stone well in the middle, with a wooden bucket hanging from a rope. Along one side was a row of automobiles, all under canvas covers - antiques, she supposed. There was a long row of beautiful fountains on the other end, flanked by two cannons. At the farthest point, there was also something else under a tarp, an object that looked much larger than a car. Perhaps a boat on a trailer.
It was so tranquil - she c
