Chapter 35
London, Kensington, Kensington Palace Gardens
Atwood House
2:13 p.m.
Alistair was sitting on Gabriela’s bed watching Sophia zip up her daughter’s dress and sit her on the light pink plush chair of her vanity table.
He could see she was tense, but she was fighting it as she bit her lower lip with so much force that he worried she was going to split it. This was the only sign that her nerves were wound tight.
For Gabriela’s sake, she was behaving extremely well since they had arrived in London at twenty past twelve in the afternoon.
She didn’t say or do much on their nine hour flight back.
He didn’t try to push her either. He held her in his arms on the stateroom bed and comforted her as best as he could until she fell into a serene slumber for the last few hours.
Now she
