May 10, 2026
Hothouse - A Paranormal Romance (Episode 1 of 4) - Germination"
Daphne Laurel arrives in Connecticut to claim her inheritance: a sprawling botanical garden, a quaint cottage, and apparently a magical gift she didn't know she had. Within hours of stepping into the greenhouse, she's overwhelmed by a strange awareness—she can feel what the plants feel. And in May, what they feel is want.The handsome caretaker isn't helping. Neither is the vine that trips her directly into his arms, triggering a bloom cascade that makes her attraction embarrassingly visible.Her aunt's notes make the situation clear: the garden wants an heir. It's been waiting. And it's chosen the gardener as its candidate.Daphne should definitely leave. She's going to stay anyway.
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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, and welcome to Romance Weekly. This
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is Hothouse, Episode one, Germination. The thing no one tells
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you about inheriting a botanical garden is that it comes
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with a gardener. This would be fine, normal, even if
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the gardener in question didn't look like he'd been sculpted
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by someone who really really liked forearms. But here I
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am standing in the gravel driveway of Laurel Gardens, watching
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a man in dirt stained jeans walk toward me with
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the kind of easy confidence that suggests he's never had
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an anxiety attack in a supply closet. Must be nice.
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You must be Daphne. He offers his hand. Matt Cole,
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I was your aunt's caretaker. His hand is warm and calloused,
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and I'm shaking it for slightly too long before I
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realize I should probably stop. Bierra talked about you, he says,
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she was excited you were coming to visit this summer.
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Before he stops, clears his throat, I'm sorry for your loss.
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Thank you. I'm sorry too. I look past him at
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the garden, which sprawls across five acres of Connecticut countryside
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like something out of a fever dream greenhouses glinting in
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the may sunshine, flower beds erupting in colors. I don't
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have names for trees that look like they've been here
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since before the concept of property ownership existed. I didn't
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know her well. We only met a few times when
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I was a kid. But she left me all this
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she did. Something flickers across his face, amusement maybe, or
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knowing have you been inside yet? Just got here? Then
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let me give you the tour. He turns and walks
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toward the main greenhouse, and I follow, trying very hard
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not to notice the way his shoulders move under his
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T shirt. This is fine. I'm a professional. I spent
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eight years as a corporate accountant before I quit to
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have a nervous breakdown, and those skills don't just disappear.
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I can handle a handsome gardener. I can handle anything.
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The greenhouse door opens and every thought in my head evaporates.
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I don't know how to describe what hits me when
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I step inside. It's not a smell exactly, though there
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are smells earth and green and something sweeter underneath, like
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honey left in Then it's not a sound, though there's
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a kind of humming at the edge of my hearing,
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almost like the building itself is breathing. It's more like
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a feeling, a pressure, the sense of a thousand living
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things pressing against my awareness, all of them growing, reaching, wanting.
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I stumble, catch myself on a potting bench. You okay.
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Matt is beside me, not touching, but close enough that
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I can feel the heat of him. The greenhouse takes
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some people that way. The humidity probably right, the humidity.
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I straighten up and try to focus, but everything is
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so much. The orchids in the corner are practically screaming
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at me, not words, not anything I could articulate, but
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a kind of desperate beauty, a need to be seen
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and admired and touched. The ferns are calmer, ancient, and patient,
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but even when they're reaching toward me, like they know
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I'm here, and underneath it all this low throb of want,
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like the whole greenhouse is vibrating with spring, with the
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urgent need to grow and bloom and reproduce. I am
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definitely imagining this. This is stress, This is grief I
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haven't processed. This is what happens when you quit your
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job and drive to Connecticut to claim an inheritance from
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an aunt you barely knew. The main greenhouse is mostly tropicals,
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Matt is saying. He's moved deeper into the space, pointing
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out different sections. Vera had one of the best orchid
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collections in New England. The rose garden is outside, along
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with the perennials. The kitchen garden is behind the cottage.
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That's where you'll be staying. Where do you stay. There's
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an apartment above the equipment barn. He glances back at me.
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Don't worry. I won't be in your way. I know
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this is a lot to take on. If you decide
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to sell, I can help you find a buyer who'll
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take care of the place. Sell. That's what most people do.
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Botanical gardens aren't exactly low maintenance. I look around at
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the greenhouse, the orchids with their desperate beauty, the ferns
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with their patient reaching, all of it humming with a life.
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I can almost feel something in my chest Titans. I
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haven't decided anything yet, I hear myself say, I want
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to understand what I'm inheriting first. Matt nods slowly. There's
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that flicker again, the one I can't read, then let's
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keep going. There's a lot to see. The tour takes
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two hours. By the end of it, I'm overwhelmed in
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ways I don't have vocabulary for Every section of the
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garden hit me differently. The rose garden was intoxicating, all
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that scent and color pressing against my senses. The woodland
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area was cool and quiet, a relief after the intensity
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of the flowers. The vegetable garden was practical, grounding, the
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kind of place where I could imagine actually thinking straight.
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Matt is patient throughout, answering questions I didn't know I had,
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explaining the maintenance schedules and the seasonal rhythms, and the
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upcoming May Day festival that's apparently a big deal for
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the local community. Fara never missed one, he says. People
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come from three counties. It's the biggest event of the year.
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When is it three weeks and you can run it
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without her? I've been running it with her for three years.
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I know what needs to happen. He pauses. But it
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would be good to have a Laurel here for continuity.
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If you're planning to stay that long. I should say no,
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I should say I'm just here to assess the property,
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figure out what to do with it, move on with
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my life. I have no life to move on to,
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but that's beside the point. Instead, I say, I'll think
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about it. We're standing at the entrance to the cottage now,
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a perfect little stone building covered in climbing roses, the
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kind of place that belongs in a storybook. Matt hands
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me a key, old fashioned and heavy. The fridge is stocked.
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Fia left instructions for everything in the desk drawer. She
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knew she was sick toward the end. Wanted to make
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sure whoever came next would know what they were getting into.
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Did she know it would be me, she hoped. He
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holds my gaze for a moment, and I feel that
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pressure again. Not the garden this time, something else, something
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that has nothing to do with plants, and everything to
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do with the way his eyes crinkle when he's thinking.
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I'll let you get settled, says if you need anything,
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I'm in the barn. He walks away, and I watch
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him go, and I absolutely do not think about the
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way his genes fit The cottage is exactly what you'd
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expect from a woman who talked to plants, herbs, drying
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in bundles from the ceiling, books on botany and folklore,
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crammed into every shelf, a kitchen that smells like lavender
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and something earthy I can't identify. And everywhere, everywhere, plants
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on every window sill, hanging from every hook, climbing up
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the walls like they're trying to escape. I set my
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suitcase down and stand in the middle of the living room, breathing.
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It's quieter here than in the greenhouse. The plants are
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still present. I can feel them, that strange awareness that
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started when I walked through the greenhouse door. But they're calmer, settled,
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like they've been here a long time and have nothing
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to prove. I find the desk draw Matt mentioned and
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pull out a thick folder, Vera's handwriting on the cover
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for Daphne. When she's ready, I open it. The first
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page is a letter, my dear girl. If you're reading this,
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then I'm gone and you've come to claim what I've
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left you. I'm sorry we didn't have more time together.
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Your mother and I had our differences, and I let
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them keep me from knowing you the way I should have.
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But I knew enough. I knew that you have the gift,
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even if you don't know it yet. The women in
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our family have always had a connection to growing things,
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a sensitivity, an empathy. It skipped your mother, much to
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her relief. But I saw it in you when you
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were seven years old, and the roses bloomed out of
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season when you walked past them. The garden knows you're coming.
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It's been waiting. Be patient with yourself. The gift takes
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time to understand. Matt will help. He knows what I was,
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even if he doesn't have the empathy himself. Trust him
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and trust the garden. It wants what's best for you,
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even when its methods are unsubtle. All my love, aunt
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Vera p s. The greenhouse can be overwhelming in spring.
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Try to eat something before you go in there. Low blood,
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sugar and botanical empathy don't mix well. I read the
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letter three times, then I set it down and stare
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at the wall for a while. Botanical empathy the gift.
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The garden knows I'm coming. This is insane. This is
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the kind of thing that happens in fairy tales, not
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in real life. Not to former accountants who quit their
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jobs because they couldn't stop crying in the bathroom. But
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I think about the greenhouse, the way everything pressed against
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my senses, the wanting I felt coming from everywhere at once.
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If I'm being honest with myself, if I'm being really
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truly honest, I've been feeling something like that since I arrived,
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a hum underneath everything, an awareness of green and growing things,
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just at the edge of my perception. I thought it
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was stress. I thought it was grief. What if it's
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something else. Entirely that night I dream about the garden,
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not the way you normally dream about places, vague impressions,
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symbolic imagery, the usual subconscious nonsense. This is vivid, immersive,
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more real than waking. I'm standing in the greenhouse. But
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the greenhouse is enormous, stretching out in every direction, farther
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than I can see, And everything is growing, not slowly,
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the way plants actually grow fast, urgent, pushing up through
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the soil and climbing toward an unseen light. I can
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feel them, not just see them, feel them, the pull
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of water through roots, the unfurling of leaves, the desperate
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stretch towards sun, and underneath it, all that throb of want,
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the same want I've felt during the tour, but stronger, now,
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more insistent. Spring is here. The garden is telling me.
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Everything is ready, everything is reaching for connection. Find him,
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the garden says, not in words, not in anything I
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could describe as language, just a knowing a direction. Find
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him and let us bloom. I wake up tangled in sheets, sweating,
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my heart racing like I've been running. The clock says
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three a m. Through the window, I can see the
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Gris house glowing faintly in the moonlight. I do not
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go back to sleep. Morning finds me in the kitchen garden,
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aggressively weeding. I don't know anything about weeding. I've never
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gardened in my life, but I woke up with too
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much energy, too much of that strange awareness humming through me,
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and I needed to do something physical. The weeds seemed
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like a safe choice. You're up early. I don't jump.
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I definitely don't jump. I just move suddenly in a
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startled fashion. Matt is standing at the edge of the garden,
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coffee cup in hand, looking like the kind of person
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who's been awake for hours and is completely at peace
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with it. Couldn't sleep, I say, brushing dirt off my knees.
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The garden does that to people. Takes a while to
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adjust to the energy. The energy, I say it flatly,
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daring him to elaborate. VERA didn't tell you. He walks closer,
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hands me the second coffee cup. I didn't notice he
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was holding. The garden is particular. It takes time to
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get used to particular, how it has opinions, preferences. It
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knows what it wants. He SIPs his coffee, watching me
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over the rim, and it usually gets it. I think
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about the dream, the pull toward connection, the very unsubtle
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directive to find him. My aunt left me a letter,
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I say, carefully. She mentioned something about a family gift,
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an empathy with plants. Ah Matt nods like this confirms
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something he suspected. So you're feeling it already, feeling what
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everything he gestures at the garden around us. It's may
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the whole property is in reproductive overdrive. For someone with
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the empathy, that can be intense. Intense. How he opens
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his mouth to answer, and that's when the vine wraps
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around my ankle. I don't see it coming one second.
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I'm standing there, coffee in hand, having a civilized conversation.
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The next second, I'm pitching forward, tripped by a vine
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that I swear was not there. A moment ago, Matt
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catches me. His arms come around my waist, pulling me
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against his chest. Before I can face plant into the
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raised bed, the coffee goes flying. I grab his shoulders
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for balance, and suddenly I'm pressed against him, our faces
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inches apart, his hands warm through my shirt. Every flower
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in the kitchen garden blooms. I'm not exaggerating. I watch
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it happen over his shoulder, the tomato blossoms, opening, the verbs,
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sending up sudden flowers, even the vegetables throwing out blooms
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they shouldn't have for weeks. It's like a wave rolling
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outward from where we're standing, a chain reaction of flowering
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that sweeps across the entire garden. Matt looks at the flowers,
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looks at me. His expression is very carefully neutral. That's new,
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he says. I put away from him, face burning. What
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the hell was that? The empathy when you feel something strong,
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the garden responds, I didn't feel anything. He raises an eyebrow.
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I didn't. I stop, regroup, try to remember how words work.
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That was the garden's fault. The vine tripped me. The
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vine tripped you, he repeats, Yes, the vine that wasn't
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there before and has now mysteriously retreated back into the soil.
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I look down. He's right, there's no vine anywhere near
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my feet, just ordinary dirt, looking completely innocent. The garden
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did that on purpose, I say, probably why Matt's neutral
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expression cracks slightly. There's something underneath amusement or something warmer,
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something I don't want to examine too closely. The garden
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likes you, he says. And it's spring, and he trails off,
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shaking his head. I should get back to work. The
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roses need pruning. He walks away, and I'm left standing
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in a garden full of newly bloomed flowers, trying to
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pretend my pulse isn't racing. I spend the rest of
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