Chapter 28
The summons came early, before breakfast had even properly begun, a maid rushing to fetch Callie from the storage room with clear urgency in her voice. "The family wants you. Now. The main sitting room."
Callie's stomach dropped, though she had half expected this after last night. She dressed quickly and made her way down, bracing herself with every step for whatever waited on the other side of that door.
The room was already full when she arrived. Her mother sat rigid on the settee, her father standing near the window with his arms crossed, jaw tight. Peter stood off to one side, expression unreadable. And Rowena stood in the center of the room, already working herself into tears, dabbing dramatically at her eyes with a lace handkerchief the moment Callie stepped through the
