TenTucked in a quiet corner of the Ebner Hotel’s downstairs bar, Seb huddled over an ale and tried to work out how he had managed to get things so disastrously wrong with Isabella. Basil had entrusted him with protecting their extended family — Isabella and Huldah and, of course, Rosie as their guest — as well as pursue information about both Alycia’s death and Alejandro’s whereabouts. That was enough to have on his plate, without having to deal with an over-sensitive child as well.
He gazed into his beer pot and sighed. He normally wouldn’t seek comfort in his cups, but he’d had to escape the freezing mood he’d triggered upstairs and find somewhere to think.
The girl was fixated on finding her brother, and what chance was there of that ever happening? His throat closed up as he thought
