He looked up suddenly, their eyes meeting. Her heart beat a little harder. She felt nervous. Would he be angry? Upset? Sad? Any one of those emotional reactions would be justified, in her opinion. She had run off the evening before without telling a soul where she was going, and she had spent the night somewhere else without letting anyone from the Warrington estate know where she was. If she were in his shoes she would tear her a new one.
Instead of yelling, he walked right up to her and caught her in the tightest hug she had ever experienced.
"My God, Margie, you really should not just up and leave without informing anyone. I have been worried sick for as long as we knew that you had left the mansion and gone elsewhere. Where have you been?"
His voice cracked slightly when he asked t
