As it turned out, it was just the four of us who drove to Shadow Brook. When I mentioned the weekend, Alyona gave a brisk nod. “I go pack for baby Quinton.”
Gregor, on the other hand, went to Nigel and said he couldn’t go because he had to study with friends.
“Does he really?” I asked Nigel.
“No. He’s got a girlfriend, and I don’t think he wants to leave her.”
There! I knew Mother was imagining things! “Have you spoken to him about taking precautions?”
He wrapped an arm around me and dropped a kiss at the corner of my mouth. “Both our mothers would have a heart attack to hear you speak like that!”
“I don’t know about Ada, but Mother would have preferred the heart attack to having an unwed, pregnant daughter.”
“Actually, Ada would refuse to even consider the possibility of s*x outsid
