The Break-in

"Do you think I'll go broke by indulging in La Perla?"

My butler side eyed me in the mirror from where he was brushing his teeth as I applied under eye cream to my face. As usual, my pyjamas consisted of a silky negligee that was modest enough to be worn in the presence of a man who I wasn't intimate with without provoking him. It looked great on me.

"Aren't you worth billions of dollars?" Henri asked once he'd rinsed his mouth. The man rose from his hunched over position and took a spray bottle from the counter. I think the most bizarre thing I'd learned about him was that he had a night time skincare routine, which made sense because his skin was amazing.

Still, I wasn't used to a man admitting that he had a skincare routine, and this made it all the better. We would always stand in the bathroom at night doing our faces. It was strangely domestic.