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Agathe hugged a warm paper cup of coffee in her hands, her attention on the glass shop window display, housed within an exquisite building she’d shunned for far too long. The Block Arcade was a Melbourne icon. Her favorite shopping spot. The high, stained-glass ceilings and the intricate mosaic floor alone were worth visiting and stood as the perfect model of Victorian-era design and classic Italian architecture. For so long, she’d denied herself beauty and leisure, but thanks to Luke’s insistence, she’d taken the day off to revisit a pastime she hadn’t indulged since before Elsie’s birth.
A light tingling spread throughout her body, on this, a completely atypical day to herself, all after spending an entire night cuddled up to the most heart-stirring man she’d ever met.
She felt gra
