Chapter 23

“Your note read that you were going to be away for two weeks. It's only nine days, and you're back home. Why?” I asked when I finally found my voice. He was drenched from head to toe and was shivering cold, but I was more concerned about his sudden appearance on the same day he gave his staff leave.

“It's my home, isn't it?” He walked into the house and shut the door behind him. He walked over to a giant table and tried to pull it by himself.

I moved over to the other end of the table and pushed while I pulled until it was stationed behind the door, keeping it from opening easily or by external force. “I'd get someone to have that checked by