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{ il castello baronale } but it's always autumn sings it's not too late to find your way back home
The wedding itself had been a simple courthouse affair with a few witnesses - Dieter brought Melidere with him, who seemed to be attending mostly to see who in the hell Martel Dessoir finally persuaded to marry him, and a friend of Candice's from her months-long absence (Tina) attended with her own recently wedded husband (Joe). Seraphina's ( Read more... ) -
{ stonefield } and i don't think you meant it when you said you couldn't love me
Ireland is beautiful and the vacation does them all good, but all good things come to an end; Stragen leaves to meet Melidere on his way back to Windsor, and Martel takes Candice and Inga home a few days later. Sophie meets them at the airport with the car, smiling at Candice and surrendering the keys to Martel before he asks for them. (She's been ( Read more... ) -
{ stonefield } bring the gods, line 'em up one by one
Peculiarly insular as it is, the Dessoir household is allowed to go on unbothered for maybe six months; Martel's two and a half months in Germany aren't much the subject of discussion (he brings home pictures, presents for Inga and a few interesting things he picked up about the Dessoirs that came before him, he discusses his research only in the ( Read more... ) -
{ stonefield } and she won't tell a soul 'cause she knows what they would say
The following morning, Martel sleeps longer than he usually would - and longer than he'd intended to. A late night, the stress, a warm body next to him...the point is that he's still asleep, curled mostly against Candice, when a sharp knock on the bedroom door precedes Belinda's entrance ( Read more... ) -
{ stonefield } is this about blame? is this about corruption, baby?
For the past week or so, despite being available to Inga almost at her will, Mr Dessoir has found reason after equally pressing reason to be wherever Candice Chavez is not. Left to his own devices, he might keep it that way - just out of sheer stubbornness. She's interesting, but there are hundreds of thousands of interesting people in the world ( Read more... ) -
{ stonefield } and the sun's been slowly setting on your golden age
Worn out and more interested in the bath and bed waiting for him at the house than the further opportunity to be alone with his thoughts (Inga should be asleep when he gets home, but he only half-heartedly considers that she might not hear the car), Martel doesn't particularly relish the drive from Bradley International. His mind doesn't wander too ( Read more... ) -
{ retrospective } the finger on the trigger and your expensive clothes
If God still paid him any heed, he must have been laughing. They might've made a picturesque little family - beautiful new mother at rest, first time father standing by with newborn daughter in his arms - if it weren't for the legal documents on the table, Martel's dangerously edged tension and Lillias's pouty, sullen displeasure. Their brief ( Read more... )
