Chapter 92

Later that afternoon, I was sitting in the nursery, finishing up the baby blanket I’d been working on, when I heard a bit of a commotion outside. Even though it sounded like it was coming from the garden out by the living room, I could hear it in the back of the cottage, in the nursery. But then, the cottage wasn’t that big. My first thought was that Ethan had come to see me, and Soren and his guards had shown up and caught him. My heart began to pound in my chest at the idea. I pushed up from my chair, laying the blanket carefully aside, and headed into the other room to investigate. When I reached the living room, I saw Lola and Seraphine looking out the window. There were a lot of people in the yard, though I couldn’t tell exactly what they were doing. Seraphine turned and looked at me. “Mr. Soren called a bit earlier,” she explained. “He said to tell you he was sorry for all of the noise, but the flower bushes he had ordered came in, and he asked the gardeners to come and put them