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 cottag e wasn‘t that big.,’

My first thought was that Ethan had come to see me, and Soren and his guards had showed 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...