“A cook?”
He nodded. “Before coming to the orphanage, she taught school but quit when her son died in the war. Her heart was too broken. She then doted on all of us.”
“There’s still things I don’t know about you,” I said, amazed.
“There are things I still don’t know about you as well.” Maddox brought me closer and rested his head on mine. “But I look forward to learning all there is to know.”
“Because I don’t want to keep anything from you, um…” I bit down on my bottom lip. “Rowan was here. I saw him on the balcony.”
Maddox frowned and stopped dancing. “Did he hurt you at all? How did he—”
“Calm down,” I said. “He didn’t hurt me. He just… wanted to see me. As for how he got past all of your men, I think he used the shadows.”
“He’s gone now?”
“Yep.”
“Good.” Maddox then continued dancing with me, but I caught him surveying the room a bit harder than before. “Remind me to track him down later and gut him.”
My grumpy, overprotective captain. I loved him more and more as each day passed.
I then recalled my conversation with Lupin. I was still in disbelief, struggling to process it. I had been born in that world. So had my parents. I wanted—needed—to learn more too.
And I would. Eventually.
But for tonight, I danced.
The End… For Now
