It isn’t too bad unless you had more to drink some nights.”“Really? Okay, thanks for telling me. All anybody else would do is complain. Three wi...ves and Diane.”“Four? You were married four times?”“Yeah. So? Didn’t Diane tell you my life story?”“She said you had both been married before, but she never told me she was your fourth wife!”“Well, the first one was when I was twenty. Lasted about two years – last I heard, she had just been released from a mental facility because she’d claimed to hear. Jessie had hers up and a very sophisticated style; it made her look much older and sophisticated than her twenty-one years.They both had complete makeovers with smoky eyeshadow, blush, and deep red lipstick. Christy was wearing a new lacy rose-colored knee-length dress with a plunging neckline and open back. Jessie had on a new lacy black dress that came to mid-thigh. It also had a plunging neckline and open back.I elbowed Caleb to get his attention and pointed him to the girls. He did like I. I am ... relieved that you are here, your Highness.”I smiled, expression softening. He’s had to put up with whatever is going on with Cailan for probably a week; no point taking it out on him. “It’s going to be okay, Willem.”“And happy I am to hear that.” He shook his head, covering over his concerned expression with the obsequious mask he used with the other nobles. “If you would wait here, your Highness?”He was back in a few short minutes. After donning a cloak he helpfully provided and. I lost my wife ten years ago and have no plans to re-marry.” Rex changed the subject. “We marveled at the serendipity of Clair’s and my ancestors coming from the same town in the old country. I wonder if, a hundred years ago, her family knew my family.” He cut to the chase. “Clair said that you needed to ask me something, an invitation tomorrow afternoon?” Karl must have invited him, based on what I heard Rex say next. “Uh, yes. Thank you for the invitation. I look forward to it. We should.