Auden looks down at me with a frown. “Seriously?”
I frown too, shaking my head. “Yeah, Auden. Seriously.”
His confusion increases. “What the hell does that old man have to do with anything?”
I laugh. “Auden, he’s younger than your father –“
“Yeah, but he acts like he’s about eighty. Eighty and content to sit in his tower all day, counting his coins. He’s not a threat, Everleigh – why on earth would we need to talk about him in secret?”
“He’s…not a threat?”
Auden shrugs. “Wood’s desires always lean towards the largest profit. He’s predictable and easy to appease. Why would you care that he’s here?”
A slow smile spreads across my mouth when I realize that…Auden has no idea. But even as I grin my heart sinks because…those first three months of my pregnancy being hounded by Wood were so
