The estate had grown quiet as night settled in casting silvery beams of moonlight across its sprawling grounds. Audrey sat by the large bay window in her room staring out at the illuminated gardens below.
She held a book in her hands though she hadn’t turned a page in over half an hour. Her thoughts were elsewhere tangled in the whirlwind of emotions and events that had consumed her life since stepping back into Adam’s world.
A gentle knock at the door startled her breaking her reverie.
“Come in” she called closing the book and setting it aside.
Adam stepped inside his presence filling the room effortlessly. He wasn’t in his usual sharp suits or casual attire. Instead he wore an open-collared shirt and dark trousers a look that softened the usual intensity he carried.
“Are you busy?”
