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FLORAL’S POV

If there was anything that took me by surprise, it was the fact that Mrs. Devon had been a lot kinder than I ever expected. She had even taken everything upon herself and blamed herself for what happened. The guilt practically radiated off her and it was almost too easy to use that to my advantage but that wasn't going to happen, not yet.

My time was surely going to come and doing anything that would seem off right now would only end up raising eyebrows and that wasn't going to happen. I had to make everybody fall in line. She treated me like a lost child and she was desperate to make up for it, and I could tell she would do anything to keep me around, especially since I didn't act like I was angry towards her and told her that I detailed how she must have felt which was why she had done it. She was only trying to make up for the years that she'd abandoned me. That was perfect. It was exactly what I needed to make sure I could control her and bend her to my will.

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