" The following day, Cass still felt as if the villa were suffocating her. Not only was she trapped inside, but she was bored out of her mind--so bored that she sat on the stool and plucked random strings on her aunt’s harp for a while until Bortolo reminded her that he was blind and not deaf. "

― Fiona Paul , Venom (Secrets of the Eternal Rose, #1)