When the men returned from court, I walked in to join them. Isabella had stayed with Ethan to catch up and gossip with her London friends. She was quite pleased to show off little Ethan. All her friends were quite jealous of her husband. I was pleased we were getting closer. She was much easier to spend time with now that she was not with her mother all the time. She had also softened somewhat since becoming a mother herself.
We rarely all came to London, but the men of my family were required at court for some time. Which meant my mother and I were also required to return, at least some of the time, especially while we were staying here. I wasn’t sure about going back to court after seeing Leo. I was afraid. But not of him. I was afraid of things changing and what I would be giving up fo
