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                  Lucy cut her off. “No! Sam picked this out and this is what we can afford. Don’t say anything to him.”
                  Her grandmother sighed and pulled her fur up around her neck. Isabella had a look on her face that Lucy recognized easily because it was one that she saw from time to time reflected in her own mirror-stubbornness. Lucy moved towards her and held out her arms, “Isabella I love you, but on this I won’t give in. I won’t have him feel bad.”
                  He grandmother sighed and shook her head before pulling Lucy to her. But Lucy knew it wasn’t over. As long as her grandmother had breath in her body she would fight her, but in this instance Lucy wouldn’t let her win.

Chapter Four
                  Lucy and Sam quickly settled into their flat and into their new life in London. She hadn’t been able to find an internship, they were scarce after the economic collapse, but by the beginning of the second month she had found a job as an assistant in a company that organized tours of historic houses.
    It didn’t pay much but at least it kept her busy. Because of the hours that his internship expected him to work, and his need to socialize to make contacts, Lucy saw Sam for less than an hour a day. It was a lonely life , which she hadn’t counted on. She had her grandmother to visit but she had been avoiding her because she didn’t want to hear what Isabella had to say about Lucy’s life, and about Sam.
                  Finally, unable to put it off any longer, on her way home from work one day, she stopped to see Isabella. As she made her way down her grandmother’s street the leaves were just beginning to turn and the air had a crispness to it that hadn’t been there the day before.
    Isabella’s neighborhood was a completely different London from the one that she and Sam lived in , and Lucy allowed herself to acknowledge how beautiful it was. The houses weren’t normal houses; they were mansions, huge and stately with the sheen of age and money. Because the sun was already setting she could see into one as she passed and the warm glow from its lighted windows made her wish that she lived there.
                  Shaking her head at such a traitorous thought she told herself that it wasn’t good to wish for a life that she couldn’t have. When she realized it was the same thing that her father had been telling her for her entire life she felt sick to her stomach. Her dad was a world away and yet in many ways he still controlled her.
                  “Lucy, are you okay?”
                  Startled she looked up to see that Rodrigo was standing in front of her, and the sight of him made her suddenly feel like crying. She managed not to but he saw the look on her face and reached out to her. “What is it?”
                  She shook her head and blinked to clear her eyes. “Nothing. Nothing. I’m fine.”
                  He pulled her towards him and hugged her. “My angel what is it? Tell Grandpa and he’ll fix it.”
                  Lucy laughed at that and pulled back to look at him. His dark brown eyes were twinkling and a devilish smile brightened his face. She slapped his chest and he laughed, shook his head, and put his arm around her they turned. It was only then that she realized that she had been standing in front of her grandmother’s house.
                  As they neared the front door she looked over to the right and saw her grandmother at the window looking out with a worried frown upon her face.
                  A butler in full livery opened the front door and Lucy bit back the smile that threatened as he took her coat. Rodrigo escorted her to a drawing room off to the right and the minute the door opened her grandmother was across the room and pulling Lucy into an embrace. “My