Chapter 40

“Then suddenly, this chap jumps out of nowhere and hits me.”

“You? But why you?”

“Beats me, I think they mistook Callum for a girl back then and didn’t want to hit a lady.”

“They did not,” Callum muttered grumpily.

The three of them laughed and Oliver poured more gin for each.

There were different glasses, scattered all over the table and he wasn’t sure which was whose anymore.

After they’d told everyone in the manor they were going on a short visit in the countryside, they had left for Kent the same day at noon and Xiao was waiting for them there in a small inn in the evening.

“It tastes awful, almost worse than the food,” Xiao said, tasting the alcohol.

The food they’d brought them was, indeed, quite bad but neither of them had voiced any protest. Oliver had long ago learned not to b