*Daphne*

It was almost a week since Rowan made his mysterious appearance at the manor. Daphne was still slightly on edge about the whole encounter and tried her best to look past it. She knew stressing about it wasn’t good for the baby.

As crazy as it seemed, she meant what she said to Alistair about not alienating his son. It was bad enough that she was still living with the guilt about Evelyn living in France—she did not want to add Rowan to that same list in ...