(Aurora's POV)
My ears went warm. I turned away before he could see it.
(Author's POV)
Three days later, Jasper arrived at the Everett estate.
He came in person, which was unusual. Butler Alfred showed him into the sitting room, where William Everett was already settled with his morning coffee. Jasper set a cream envelope on the side table - thick paper, embossed gold lettering - and took the offered seat across from the family patriarch.
They talked about nothing in particular. Business. The weather. The kind of conversation men like them had when they were waiting for something.
William kept one eye on the door.
When Phineas walked in, William's shoulders dropped a fraction. No Aurora. Good. The situation was already complicated enough - his son had married his grand-nephew's ex-w
