“Why don’t we stop and get something to eat on the way home?” Ari asked Grayson on the way back to the castle. It was funny that she had never thought of his townhouse as her home. But the castle was now her home. Probably because the townhouse he shared with Dima, but the castle was where she and Grayson began their life together.

Grayson sighed. “With everything that’s been going on in the village, I don’t want to keep you away from the castle for too long. I can protect ...