Lotus Conley, ugh!Any other wife might have rebelled under the circumstances, but Alice was also a secret agent, so she sighed and pressed her baby closer to her breast. That intimacy did not last long because a nurse came to take her away for her vitamin K injection, explaining that Alice had agreed to it before the birth. Alice had to rest.
Jake had let his wife see his irritation at being called away so soon. In all, he had held his daughter for a miserly two minutes. Also, Sir Clive had been irritatingly vague about North Hill, saying only that they were in a bit of a tizzy and needed to consult him in person at once. Many possible reasons might explain such a call, but, as he drove fast down to Devon, most of his theories came down to one common denominator—Captain Lorimer. Tormented
