Seraphina

“Can I help you do anything?” I asked Celine as I walked up to her in the kitchen.

“Definitely not,” she was quick to decline.

“Why not?” I asked her. “I can do quite a lot of stuff in the kitchen, you know,” I added.

“You shouldn’t,” she responded.

“You still haven’t told me why,” I urged.

“Because you are not the housekeeper, Seraphina, that’s why,” Celine answered.

“I do the cooking in my apartment,” I tried to cajole her.

“Do you have an ...