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Kingsley picked up a fraraph that sat on the coffee table between the on a white pillow

"That’s one thing you can say for hiraph toward Grace "He’s full of surprises"

She blushed beautifully and laughed quietly, and Kingsley couldn’t help but join in her laugh

"Is he why you’re here? Are you checking on Fionn for hiive sley ached to see the boy, but he had learned the hard way to never disturb a sleeping baby

"I’ why you’re here out of curiosity You never need a reason to visit us I assuhter? Nora?"

"Juliette and Céleste are perfect as usual," he said "But Nora, she lost her o, I believe"

"I had no idea Zachary never said a word about it"

"She didn’t tell anyone until afterward She disappeared on us for teeks"

"Nora" Grace sighed and shook her head "Well, if she behaved like a normal person, she wouldn’t be Nora, would she?"

"No No, she wouldn’t be" Kingsley laughed to himself "But she and her motherthey had a difficult relationship"

"Because of hihtly," Kingsley said "I think it was a peace offering to her o alone And she couldn’t tell him Nora ran away to her mother’s once before, and he hunted her down like the hound of hell"

"I didn’t know that But I can iine he’spersistent where she’s concerned?"

"That is one way to put it" Kingsley took a sip of his wine "She and her mother, they had unfinished business"

"That’s the worst-case scenario then, isn’t it? If you’re close to your parents, you have no regrets when they pass away If you have no relationship, you have no grief If you want to be close, but you can’t be"

"She took it very hard," Kingsley said, knowing Nora well enough to say that in good faith

"I’ll call her tomorrow," Grace said "Maybe she should co around Fionn And she and Zachary fight so sley wanted to laugh Only Grace Easton would call the woman who had slept--more than once--with her husband, offer her condolences on the loss of her mother and then invite her to stay in her home with Grace, her husband and their infant son as fathered by Nora’s lover