" Oh, hey, I'm sorry. Look Karen, I'll give you some space, and I can always go back to my room tonight." No, no. I was just saying is all. I'm not us...e to it. But I loved having you in here last night. And it's how I want it from now on." Yeah but, Mom and Dad probably won't care for that. Cause they'll be home eventually. And then play time, as Cindy just put it, will be over." We have to get out of this house, Josh." Well, do you mean we should find a place of our own, like Melanie wanted,. “I led Galvin for a merry chase through the slums and then ditched him.”“So what’s going to happen to you?” Sophia asked.“I’ll be fine. The kingdom may blow smoke, but I haven’t broken any actual laws, and I’m not afraid of the Herald family.”“Back at the mess hall, you said Galvin burned down the Knight’s Sheath. Is that true?”“It is. He started the fire while I was inside to try and kill me. Suffice to say, I took the act a bit personally. Last night was my retaliation.”“Henryk was struck. She didn’t buy my explanation.“It’s about mom, isn’t it?” she asked searching my eyes.I held her head against my chest, unable to look into her eyes, and told her not to worry and to stay with Harriet. She released her hold on me and I led the police over to the house.“I’m afraid we’re going to have to comb every inch of your brother’s bedroom. We’ll try to put everything back the best we can,” the detective informed me. “In addition to the bedroom, is there any other part of the house you have. I thought he’d come in his trousers right there. (I nearly did too.) He asked me if I had any more. I risked everything. I told him I had but I also said I had a video we shot on holiday in the west of Ireland. We’d rented a cottage in the middle of nowhere and one afternoon after a long lunch we shot a video with Helen striping off gradually and then wanking me off in the front garden of the cottage. The finale has me fucking her over the bonnet of our car.He begged to see it. I pretended to.