Chapter Nineteen
Archie knocked on the open door to my new rooms. "Can I come in?"
"Of course. I do believe the point is that you can come and go when you please," I pointed out.
"That doesn't change anything if it isn't what you want, though."
"I appreciate the thought." I smiled at him, and then flopped down on the comfortable sofa next to Fenn.
He looked up at the new intruder, but then dismissed him as someone of interest and went back to sleep. I scratched the top of his head absentmindedly.
"I'm guessing you've not got good news."
He grimaced, then sat down next to me. "No."
I sighed. That should be expected. I knew what Mother was like at the best of times, and now her freedom was on the line, it'd be even worse.
"What did she say?" I needed to hear it fast, or I'd chicken
