Monday
The snug’s door was partially open, spilling out the murmur of the Triquetra’s voices and the dancing light of a wood fire. Talen placed his palm on the wood, pressing it inwards to make way for her to proceed him.
The room was as beautiful as every other room in the house, but she could see that Rhett had influenced the design.
An internal room with no windows to the outside, and the walls around the fireplace and the opposite door into the hallway had been built in with floor to ceiling bookshelves in lacquered black. The bottom cupboard doors detailed with gold and jewel toned hand-painted designs of exotic birds and flowers.
The couches, arranged before the fireplace, were in an antique style, the woodwork elaborately tooled, painted black, and picked out in gold paint, an
