Chapter 601

• Proserpina
• The next day, I stood at the door, impatiently waiting for my children to arrive.
• When the children, the very youngest, Rudy and Jamie—arrived, it was evening. I had been waiting for hours to see them, excited to know how they were doing in school. It had been their first term at an exclusive, weekly boarding school, and Jamie had joined just a week ago. I missed the little scamp, who is now four years old. I had begged Lucien, to let her join when she was a little older, but he had been adamant.