Wish You Were Here. Victoria Connelly
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It was then that Alice remembered that she hadn’t just come back to the garden in the hope of seeing Milo again but to see the statue too.
She walked down the neat path which led to the Goddess Garden, passing Artemis, Demeter, Athena and the others but she hadn’t come to see them. She’d come to see Aphrodite.
Once again, the statue of the goddess of love was in full sunlight and the loveliness of her face made Alice smile. She placed her hand on the hem of the finely-carved gown and felt the magical warmth seep through her skin. What did she have to lose? She closed her eyes.
Concentrate.
What did she want for herself that the goddess could grant? What was it the gardener had told her?
‘If your wish is for love or beauty, it will be granted.’
Love or beauty. The two words spun inside her mind until she had her wish.
‘I wish,’ she began, her fingers trembling against the warm stone, ‘I wish men would notice me. I wish I wasn’t so invisible to them but that they really really saw me.’
She thought of Stella for a moment and how much attention she got from the opposite sex. Her life seemed like one long joyous date and she was constantly showered in gifts and spoilt rotten. Just once, Alice wanted to know what that would be like.
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