Still not looking at him, she nodded slowly. Realizing he was unsure if she was agreeing that he was rude or accepting his apology, he raised an eyebrow at her, but since she couldn’t explain, he continued.
“My men have been searching the area around Blackthorn, but they have not been able to find a trace of Matthew. This concerns me because I know that Leopold has sent his cavalry out to look for him as well. If they find him, well, we are back to the same position we were in six months ago.”
Katherine looked up at him for a moment, the bleakness of his statement setting in. The thought of Matthew becoming a prisoner again was horrifying, and as awful as being Philip’s prisoner had been, she could only imagine that being a prisoner in Leopold’s castle must be far worse. She had heard st
