He said it.
He actually did.
Surprisingly, the ground didn't shake, and he didn't die. Heck, even his brain offered no resistance.
What was surprising, though, was how the marquise reacted to that.
Kyle suddenly wasn't sure if he was being told to go for it or to get lost because the whole time he thought he was being encouraged to think about how he wanted to proceed.
But now?
Ollie's mother looked like she was ready to blow.
"Did-did Oliver toy with you?!" she asked, brows so furrowed that Kyle momentarily panicked.
"No, My Lady! It was nothing like that!"
"It's an inside joke between us, if anything!" he added while trying to diffuse the situation.
Marquise Julienne narrowed her eyes at him, as if filleting him for the truth, for this would not have been the first time something similar would've happened in their family.
