The ride the rest of the way to The King's City was a relatively easy one. Ian actually rode alongside Ilona with their two younger brothers right behind them. They didn't talk much, but it wasn't an uncomfortable silence.
Ilona wanted to ask Ian about the Duke and the pain the man was suffering from but doing so would be to admit she had spied on them. Things seemed to be improving at least slightly with her brother, so she didn't want to lose that now.
When they came to the city, at last, Ilona, Jamie, and Nick looked around in awe. Ilona hadn't been there since she was a child, and her younger brothers had never been there at all.
