Something that showed the world what the Ashcombe family really was.
Odette had smiled and accepted.
“It will be unforgettable,” she said.
She meant it more completely than Maeve could possibly have known.
Chapter 10 — Playing the Wife
For seven days, Odette lived inside a performance, and she gave the finest performance of her life.
Something had shifted in Dorian that week — a nervousness, perhaps a guilty instinct that the ground had moved, though he could not have said how.
He began, absurdly, to court her.
He brought home flowers.
He asked about her day and pretended to listen.