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The housekeeper drew in a breath and then, exhaling slowly, she turned to look at Savannah Her eyes were sparkling ‘A very few,’ she agreed ‘Let’s do it!’

They hurried off in different directions, snapping on light switches like naughty children, and they didn’t stop until the whole of the upper floor was flooded with light

Down in the hallway Savannah could seeup at the theatre, she concluded, feeling that salorious hoe set

The housekeeper rendezvoused with Savannah back at her roo at the transformation they’d created

‘Si, signorina You have worked a miracle’

‘A very tiny ued with a shts’

‘Sometimes that’s all it takes,’ the older woman observed shrewdly

They shared a s her to pro more

Well, she would need all the friends she could find on the staff, if she stood a chance of leaving Ethan’s home happier than she had found it, Savannah reflected But with all his beautiful treasures bathed in light she had to believe he would share her enthusias out of the shadows, and carvings revealed in all their intricate detail after years of neglect

But…would he be pleased, or would he be angry at her continued interference? She was only a guest, after all, and one that wasn’t here for very long She suspected she knehy Ethan avoided light, but her concern was for the hfares where safety was an issue The more intimate areas like Ethan’s rooms could reree it was a happy balance

Deep inside, Savannah believed everyone needed light And as for the palazzo, well, she’d already seen the results of the transforht about in her rooht, love and music in such a beautiful home There should be life at the palazzo

Savannah took a long, soapy bath Now the excitery she was, and until supper arrived a bath was the perfect distraction fros as well as from the likely repercussions of her interference in Ethan’s home

Twiddling the taps with her toes, she sank a little lower in the fragrant bubbles This story , but she had fairy-tale accoone to so much trouble it would have been churlish for her to refuse the setting they had prepared

She had rifled through the full-sized luxury products on the glass shelves like a s froes in which Ethan starred…

Wrapped up cosily in a warm robe some tiine Ethan’s dark face when she saw hi he was soine him stripped and naked beneath an ice-cold shower It would be cold water, because as too indulgent for him And his bedroom would be spartan, she decided, because Ethan denied hi soft or superfluous—which didn’t leave her with too much hope, Savannah concluded wistfully