The Golden Greenhouse
The heavy brass key, cold and thick as a knuckle, sat in my palm, its weight a physical accusation against the hollow ache of my stomach. It was the only thing Lord Vane had not stripped from me when he bought the orchid, a transaction that had cost me forty years of research and left me with a check for three pounds and a key to a room I could never afford to heat. I stood in the corridor of...
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