Achievement unlocked.
Solo break-in robbery.
Liszt slipped through the window into a study filled with an array of shelves and books, the kind you couldn't finish in a decade or two. The owner must be quite the artistic show-off. He glanced around.
His gaze finally settled on an Imperial Concubine Chair.
His attention was completely captivated.
That head of vibrant, fiery red hair captured every strand of moonlight pouring through the window. The flutter of her lashes silently slayed the dying dusk, ushering in the desolate night.
As for those eyes, they were a labyrinth of emerald pupils drawing in the drowning starlight; at this moment, any gemstone became a mere counterfeit.
She lay on her side with one hand under her head, reading by the candlelight.
