Sixteen
Fiona Fallon
Since I’m not going to school, I’ve been getting helped out by Nan. When she’s not working, I do schoolwork with her. Which is what we were doing when there was a knock on the door of the tower.
I glanced at Nan. “Are ya expectin’ someone?”
She frowned. “The children are with the Countess today. One of their aunts. She wants to keep them close since the Prince and the Duchess died. So, I don’t know who it would be.” There was a knock on the door again.
I got up and I went to open it. “Declan?”
He smiled at me. “Yer goin’ ta the investiture.”
I smiled. “I am?”
He nodded. “Oliver is takin’ ya. So you’ll be on the guest list. Oh, and I got somethin’ for ya.”
I raised an eyebrow. “Declan, ya didn’t have ta get somethin’ for
