Chapter 40: Chapter 40

"I've planned an evening out," Tiernan announced as he walked into the suite we were sharing with Torquil.

It wasn't the same suite we'd been in before—I think my father still occupied that one—but it had the same layout; open socializing area with an attached kitchen and rooms off to the sides. I'd been in the little kitchen, making me some tea, when he'd walked in.

"I don't want to go out," I said immediately as I turned to face him.