Chapter 413. Announcement

Piers

The weather forecast had predicted a mild snowfall and the snowflakes were falling outside in the garden as Piers entered the warm study where his sat mother working. It was evening and the aroma of food wafted in through the open door. Mumma had just come in after getting dinner started, he perceived fondly.

She looked so beautiful, he thought with a smile, the dark head bent over her work and then, as she sensed his presence, she raised her head and smiled at him, a smile that revealed how much she loved him.

Carefully, he lowered himself into a leather armchair facing her. His Mumma was working on her thesis; she smiled tiredly at him, rubbing her eyes as she took off her glasses, the ones she wore when she was reading. Proserpina looked into the eyes of her eldest born with love and said softly,

“What is it, Piers?’

He stood up again and paced the room restlessly.

Then he turned to her abruptly as he blurted out the word