C58 Chapter 58

The Scent of Roses

I’m afraid I couldn’t stay. Please forgive me.

Anita found the note on the kitchen table. She had woken up, and still caught up in sweet dreams and smiling, felt for Tonia on the pillow next to her. But Tonia wasn’t there.

For a moment she had hoped that Tonia was sitting at the breakfast table, as she had been in Paris. But when she entered the kitchen