A Balance of Harmonies: One Step Closer

Is a villain really necessary?

Is The Secret Garden inherently an inferior story to The Little Princess because of the lack of a villain? Personally I liked it better; no one is really bad. They act the way they do for logical reasons even if their action goes against what the main characters think is right. Some stories need people whose major motivation is greed or ambition or anger or fear or revenge. Those are good too, but small stories are fine by me. Adding a villain to Harmonies, especially this late in the game, seems superfluous to me, but I got a comment after the last chapter saying the now that the villain (I don’t know who they meant) showed up things could finally get started. And here I am trying to wrap things up.

(Any comments would be appreciated.)

The chapter is very, very short because I’ve been working way too much (my boss is on vacation so I’m in charge. I hate being in charge.) And by the end of the day, I’m too tired to do anything. I can hardly keep my eyes open right now.



Title: One Step Closer
Series: A Balance of Harmonies (Three)
Status: Chapter eighty-four of
Genre: m/m romance, drama, city life, businessmen
Rating: R
Content: home, cleaning, a shopping list, architects, questions, exploring, a great idea
Length: about 750 words
Summary: Emil is interrupted as he gets the condo ready for his men.

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