CHAPTER 20

Sir Declan, what's the matter with you coming home so late?"

"Yeah, there's so much shopping that we're running late for the flight."

"But Lucy and Kevin arrived earlier; where were you at that time, sir Declan?" Smiling, he turned to Mang Lando, whose eyes widened at the message he conveyed to the steward with only his lethal smile.

Declan was recently enraged with Margaux when he saw her yesterday in the orchard with the men, particularly Kevin.

Yes, the young man was enraged to the point where he hadn't noticed the girl since yesterday, but his rage waned even more when he returned home and the girl was no longer in the house, and that was it, Margaux was shopping for equipment with the man again.

However, Declan's rage is mitigated in part by Margaux's fear of the dark and being so close to him.

What is the reasoning behind this? Just a simple hug from her when Declan looks like a gentle sheep, and...oh God! They'd had a risky fling in his car.

"I haven't been playing with fire in