This chapter begins by continuing the slow death of Isobel and Marco.
He appears quite unexpectedly in her tent while the circus is in Paris. Instead of greeting her, like your typical significant other, he angrily asks why he was not told about the Wishing Tree, a tree full of candles, the perfect opposite/compliment to Marco's Ice Garden.
He can immediately tell it is Celia's, explaining that he can "feel it". Isobel has, by some cruelty, has failed as of yet to pick up on his growing devotion to Celia.
He tiredly explains that he cannot tamper with her (though they both end up doing that, in a good way), that the point is to "tip the scales" in their respective favors.
They wax a bit about watching Celia, which is a little less creepy than it sounds, before Marco leaves to go watch Celia perform. As he he leaves, Isobel says, "'I miss you,'" though he either doesn't hear or doesn't care (personally, I think it's the latter). My god, Isobel, how did you get hired as a fortune teller? You can't even read your own conversations to tell that Marco is in love with someone else! If he wore a sign proclaiming in neon orange, saying: "I am in love with Celia Bowen", would you even notice?!
Wait, wait. This chapter ends with her maybe figuring it out.
"From the Marseilles deck she draws a single card. She knows which it will be before she turns it over. The angel emblazoned on the front is only a confirmation of her suspicions."
Apparently, the Angel, or Temperance, symbolizes the coming together of opposites. Well, at least she knows now...surprise?
You might be wondering about the title of this chapter.
I've been counting down until Adam and Juliette stop dancing around each other in the Shatter Me review.
So I decided to count the pages until Marco and Celia do so as well, and it's not good. 100 pages, twenty-six chapters to go. Sigh. Spotify (where the Ed Sheeran part comes from) is certainly not helping.
Next chapters of both should be up tomorrow.
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