Chapter Three
I gave Evony the third bedroom, mainly because I was so tired by then that I didn’t feel like swapping out the linens on the bed Jace had used the night before. She didn’t seem to care about the size of her sleeping quarters; yes, that was the smallest bedroom, but even so it was a good deal larger than the room that had been mine in the house where I grew up, and of course the furnishings were gorgeous, just like everything else in the house.
“Well, it’s not a suite at the Okay Owingeh casino, but it’ll have to do,” she deadpanned, and I couldn’t help grinning.
“The bathroom is next door, and there’s plenty of toothpaste and soap and all that, so — ”
“I’ll be fine. Right now I think I just want to sleep for a hundred years.”
I knew the feeling. Too many ups and downs th
