Indeed, it was as he had guessed, and judging from the old lady's reaction, or lack thereof, she had known, even if her granddaughter had said nothing about it.
Daemon returned his focus to the call, and replied tersely:
"No."
His finger moved to end the call, but Dinaia, knowing his temperament, hurried to speak as if she was firing a machine gun:
"Wait, Daemon. Don't you dare hang up. If you do that, I will pull Evelyn away for a girls-only week, leaving you all alone at home."
There was a pause, and the wind itself seemed to stall, as Lady Moonfrost looked on with amusement.
Daemon only had one reaction after that long second:
"Oh?"
The monosyllabic question seemed to transmit all the necessary messages to the other side, and if someone had been there, they would have seen an energetic blonde freezing after having just realized what she had done.
