The meeting, well it went horrible. Connor took the facts father pointed out as a threat and rudely dismissed him. My father then dragged my mother and sisters out of town before I could make good on my promise of dining together. I do not know why I am so shocked by the outcome; I think deep down I know this would happen.
“Come to bed, we will leave first thing in the morning” Connor commands, but I just sit on the couch in silence, unmoved since my family left.
“Adeline, I said, come to bed” he orders, and I ignore him. I stared into the furtherest point of the room, my thoughts just running through me. I knew him and my father would be a mess, but to see my family hauled off like that, to see them rush from these lands like their lives depended on it. It was an image I would never b
