'ᴵᴰᴼᴺ'ᵀ ᴷᴺᴼᵂ ᴵᶠ ᴵ ᶜᴬᴺ ᶠᴵˣ ᵞᴼᵁᴿ ᴮᴿᴼᴷᴱᴺ ᴴᴱᴬᴿᵀ, ᴮᵁᵀ ᵞᴼᵁ ᶜᴬᴺ ᵀᴬᴷᴱ ᴹᴵᴺᴱ ᴮᴱᶜᴬᵁˢᴱ ᴵᵀ'ˢ ᴬᴸᴿᴱᴬᴰᵞ ᵞᴼᵁᴿˢ.'♡♡♡....
Once upon a broken heart, lived inside a hopeful girl named Evangeline Fox.
She was always the one to believe in fairytales, And happily ever afte...
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【CHAPTER SEVEN】
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If storms were made of scandal sheets, queues of gentlemen dressed with starched cravats, and notes of questionable origins, then the perfect storm was brewing in Evangeline's world the next morning.
She just didn't know this yet. All she knew about was the note of peculiar origin, which had prompted her to slip out of the house at daybreak.
___________________________________ Meet me. The curiosity shop. First thing after sunrise. -Luc ___________________________________
Evangeline's heart had nearly burst after she'd discovered the message in her bedroom the night before.
She didn't know if it was a new note or an old one that she was only finding now.
But she'd fallen asleep reading it again and again, hoping that Luc would be waiting for her in the morning with a story that was different from the one she'd heard from Marisol.
Yesterday's conversation with Marisol had shaken Evangeline; it had almost convinced her that she'd been deluding herself about Luc.
But hope
is a difficult thing to kill, just a spark of it can start a fire, and this note had given Evangeline a new spark.
Her father had owned four and a half shops across Valenda. He'd been the silent half partner of a tailor that sewed weapons into clothing. He'd built a secret bookshop, only accessible via secret passage.
Then there was his store in the Spice Quarter, covered in decorative Wanted posters with captions that read like short outlandish crime stories.
His third shop was a secret, even from Evangeline. And his fourth store was her favorite place of all: Maximilian's Curiosities, Whimsies & Other Oddities. This was the store where Evangeline had started working as soon as her father had allowed it.
