Chapter 93

- LILY -

I imagined we'd find ourselves in a room with a giant bed and a bunch of rose petals. What we get is even better.

Ward and Lou have led us to the spa. I've never been in this part of the house before - considering it didn't exist back when I was here the first time around - and it's so beautiful that I gasp as we step into the atrium. The walls are covered with glass tiles of every shade of blue and arranged in wavy, swirling patterns, giving the impression that we're deep in the sea. Lou and Ward have decorated the entire room with candles, and the dancing light cast by the warm, flickering flames make it seem like the waves are actually moving. There's a small, trickling fountain in the middle of the room, and rose petals float on the surface of the water.

"Ward's been working all week to get it ready," Lou says. She's beaming.

Ward actually looks a little sheepish as he rubs the back of his head.

"It was close to finished when the place passed to me," he says. "It wasn