Chapter 9

By the time dinner was ready, Kane still hadn’t appeared. Elise was definitely feeling abandoned.

Carrie shook her head in exasperation. “Elise, can you go fetch the men from the office? Knowing them, they’re so involved in what they’re doing, they’ll never come out on their own.”

“Okay. Can you point me in the right direction?” She wasn’t too keen on searching out the group—more wandering around on her own in ‘foreign’ territory—but she didn’t want to refuse and seem weak.

Helen gasped. “You mean Kane hasn’t even shown you around the house yet?”

Embarrassed, she shrugged and shoved her hands in her pockets. “He planned to but...”

“That man! It’s ridiculous how tied up in his work he gets. I’ll have to have a word or two with him about how to treat a mate!” Helen pursed her lips and shook her head.

“It’s all right.” Elise tried to smooth things over. The freedom with which Helen was expressing her feelings about Kane seemed strange; her father wou