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“Moreso than if you rode in on hungry lions,” I quipped.
Gabriella snapped her fingers. “Although that would be an appropriate animal to seize control of England with.”
“That, or dragons.”
Matthew nodded slowly. “I vote for the dragons.”
“You would. You’re Welsh,” Eva replied. “If you’re getting dragons, then William needs to ride in on a unicorn to represent Scotland.”
“Where would one find a unicorn?” he asked, resting on the back of my chair. “Could we just strap an ice-cream cone to a horse’s head?”
I tilted my head back to look up at him. “Why would you strap an ice-cream cone to a horse’s head?”
“To make it a unicorn, obviously.”
“What if it rains?”
“I’ll take a whole box.”
“That’s a ridiculous plan.”
“So are the elephants. Where are you going to get that many elephants to overthrow the government?”
“We can use goats,” Gabi said, twirling her hair around her finger. “Aunt Cat has about thirty now, and we can just release them in Westminster. Cause chaos there instead of at Arrowwood Hall.”
“Please,” Miles muttered. “I’m sick of mending their fences.”
I grinned. “I do not miss the chaos of a large estate, I have to be honest. Although if Granny thought she could keep goats at her allotment, she absolutely would.”
“That seems like a dangerous idea to put into her head,” William said slowly. “Given that she’s already discussing how many parrots she’s going to buy when she gets home.”
“You’re kidding.”
“He’s not,” Miles said. “She interrupted us to ask if he knew where his grandma bought Chewy.”
I jerked around. “Is that bloody bird here?”
Alex chuckled. “No. By the sounds of it, you’d know if he was.”
I huffed. “Don’t you start, or I’ll come over and teach your puppy how to chew your shoes instead of Addy’s.”
“I’ll drink to that,” she said, raising her glass. “Amen.”
Eva gasped. “I love this song! Matthew, we’re dancing.”
His eyes widened, and before he could say a word, she’d put down her glass and whisked him away.
“No,” Alexander said. “No.”
Adelaide stared at him.
He sighed, holding out his hand.
I laughed as she took it and dragged him towards the huge dancefloor that had been set up in the middle of the old ballroom, and I only laughed harder when Miles did the same before Gabriella could say a word to him.
“I’m not going to make you dance, don’t worry,” I said to William when he rounded the chair.
He reached down, took my glass from my hand, then pulled me up. “No, but I’m going to makeyou.”
