Nicholas was standing at the window when the car pulled around.
He hadn't meant to be. He'd come into his sitting room with the full intention of reviewing the files his beta had left on his desk....documents that actually mattered, that required his attention, that were relevant to the things currently at stake for this pack. He'd sat down. He'd opened the first file.
And then he'd looked up.
The car was pulling around to the front of the estate and the girl was coming down the steps, Agnes beside her, moving carefully. Even from here....two floors up, distance between them....he could see how she moved. The deliberate quality of it. Every step managed.
She's in pain. The observation arrived without invitation. She's hiding it but she's in pain.
He watched her stop at the bottom of the steps.
Watched her look back at the estate.
