“I’m not the curtsying sort of princess,” I told her.
“Oh, you are when you want to be. You should have seen her at the auction last night, Kiera. The way she marched into that room, I could almost hear fanfares. I thought Patricia was going to explode, and the look on Audrey’s face! It was worth all the hell of stalling Dmitri’s appearance.”
Kiera looked confused, so Harry explained about the two women, and the events of the night before. I waited until Kiera was absent for a few minutes before asking Harry, “Dmitri says he wasn’t at all upset or shamed by me only offering twenty-seven euros for him, but I thought I’d ask what Iakovos and you thought. I wouldn’t want to insult the family, but that was all the money I had, and—”
“Oh, lord no, we weren’t insulted! It was the best thing I
