’ Cook and her mother, Laurie Marie, came in, bright smiles on their faces and a large envelope in Laurie Marie’s hands. ‘This is for you.’ Ca...sia took the envelope from her mother and looked it over, looking at Laurie Marie and Cook before breaking the fragrant rose seal wax and tugging the single sheet of pressed paper out. Dear Cassia, I know that we have been through a lot and I wanted to apologize to you for not being man enough to deal with what happened. Before anything else happens. You portray all these strong women in your movies; don't get all soft and squishy on us now."I resisted the urge to toss in some lewd comments based on Jean's last comment.Anna changed the conversation, "I'm making waffles."We clunked around the kitchen, and started to eat when Abby appeared. She was equally surprised that Jean was present but she'd heard her mother talking so didn't arrive inappropriately attired as I had.She downed half a cup of coffee as her eyes slowly opened the rest of. He then followed Tanith into their room. They did not need extra time to clean up since they had not actually travelled by carriage the whole way. Before the group had left Aithen Aaron had asked Laura to keep certain information pertaining to him, and Tanith as well, to herself. He did not want his capabilities, or those of Tanith, broadcasted throughout the entire duchy. Laura assured him that she would not even tell her father. Aaron had to trust her on that one, but he held out hope that. The people are friendly and you can walk around without worrying who's behind you," I said."Tawnisha, baby, this wouldn't have anything to do with a certain boy we both know would it?" she said, winking at Denise.I gave her a look of feigned shock that she would even imagine such a thing but I wasn't fooling anyone. Mom and Denise both laughed at my pitiful performance."Well, I know you Tawnisha–you wouldn't bring something like this up unless you already made up your mind what you are going to.