“At least he seems to bring you more happiness than either of us expected you to have with Lord Gallmore.”
She huffed out a laugh. “Oh yes, I will forever be glad that I was able to avoid that fate. I-”
She was cut off by a loud yawn from the other side of the room. The pair let out a chuckle.
“I should probably take her to go take a nap before dinner,” Rose smiled.
“I don’t need a nap!” Milly crossed her arms.
“You didn’t sleep a wink the whole ride here. You can’t tell me you aren’t tired.”
“I’m not! I want to stay up and talk to Veronica.”
“No, you want to sit up and play with my dogs,” she laughed.
“She, and the dogs will be there when you wake up,” Rose said, shaking her head.
“But I want to see them now.”
“Come now, we both know that if you stay up much longer, you’re going to start to be grumbly and you aren’t going to behaving a fun time. Don’t you want to make a good impression on your new brother in law at dinner?”
“Yes,” she crossed her arms.
“Then why don’t you head to our room across the hall and take a little nap.”
“But what if I miss something fun?”
“You won’t. I promise to wake you up before we get into anything too exciting.”
“You promise?”
“Cross my heart.”
“All right, I’m going to go lay down for a bit, but if I find out something exciting happened and you didn’t wake me, I’m going to be cross with you!”
The sisters narrowly bit back their laughter as she begrudgingly left the room. Milly didn’t make it very far, pausing in the doorway to look back at them as if she expected them to tell her they changed their mind and that she should come back.
Of course they didn’t. It was obvious to both of them that she needed some rest. Instead they just watched as she realized theyweren't going to tell her to stay. Her shoulders sagged and she finally slumped across the hall.
Veronica looked to her sister and dared to let out a quiet chuckle. “I know she would be livid if she heard me laugh, but it is so hard not to when she gets like that.”
“I know! It is just so cute!”
“It is good to see that some things still haven’t changed.”
“I’m glad we were able to bring you some of the comfort of home.”
“And I think that is the best transition we are going to have.”
“Transition to what?”
Veronica leaned forward in her seat, letting out a deep breath. “I don’t know how to ask this.”
“How strange I was the one saying that not long ago, so allow me to echo your words, there is nothing you can’t ask me. Everything has been well with us.”
“While I am glad to hear that, that only makes me more unsure.”
“Unsure of what?”
