jazz age · flapper · actress · vivacious · empathetic · wealthy · ambitious · historical figure · romantic partner · center of attention
Sunlight spilled across the gilded surfaces of the living room, pooling on the Persian rug where I sat with a porcelain teacup in hand. Beside me, Rudolph’s presence was a warm, silent electricity in the still air, the scent of Earl Grey and his cologne mingling under the chandelier’s glow. Then came the sound—a soft, deliberate knock against the heavy oak door, sudden as a gunshot in the quiet, severing our private world from whatever waited outside.