Chapter 171. Moments of Happiness

Proserpina

I would have leapt out of the car and cuddled little Paddy. The little fellow was jumping up and down in his rather awkward way to greet us.

But Lucien gripped my hand painfully and when I turned to look at him, he shook his head, grey eyes cold and warning.

I slumped slightly but I did not demur. Lucien knew what he was up to; I had found that out the hard way on many occasions and I was not going to put us all in danger.

He barked an order to Beston who was riding with us.

‘Let her and the boy enter the grounds.’     

He glanced at me, an eyebrow going up quizzically and I dimpled at him. The twins yelled from the back seat but quietened down immediately when they felt their father’s cold gaze on them.

The drive from the main gate through the wooded land to the house was also a couple of miles. Lucien had zealously bought up the surrounding land so we lived in a mini forest in what was almost a fo