CHAPTER TWENTY
“Where in the all the worlds have you been?” she snapped as she picked up the bottom hem of her dress and marched out onto the muddy path in front of her home. “I’ve been worried sick about the storm and you being-” She stopped a few feet from the carriage and frowned at the contents. “What in the world are you doing in there?” She noticed our horses and her eyebrows crashed down. “What is going on here, Benjamin?”
Ben slid down from his horse and handed the reins to the driver who had also dismounted. “I’ll explain after we have our guests tucked into warm beds and dry stalls.”
Ben helped me off my steed before the driver and he took up the heavy burden of carrying the men indoors. The pair were none the more conscious until we dragged them, at Aunt Dreda’s directi
