The Wistful Petal

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The Wistful Petal

The ledger was bound in cracked leather, its pages yellowing like old teeth in Arthur Penhaligon’s hands. The ink was smudged where his thumb had pressed too hard, a dark bruise on the paper that mirrored the cold sweat on his forehead. Outside the window, the November wind whistled through the eaves of Vane Manor, a sound like a finger circling the rim of a glass. Arthur was thirty-four, a...

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