CHAPTER 125

  **GWEN**

  "Abby?"I squealed,jumping up from the settee to hurry to her,not paying heed to her subsequent stifled tone.I higher her right the instant I was close to her."I can't believe you are here in person.Where have you been?"The questions flowed one after the other.

  When she didn't reply,I pushed away from her and grazed her from head to toe in assessment.Then it dawned on me that Tyler had lied.I swerved around you and ogled at him."You lied to me!"

  His hands lifted and fell by his sides,his eyes rolling up."I didn't,"he drawled."She just showed up at my doorstep a few minutes after you left the other day."

  "And you didn't think to inform me."I was back at Abby."You had everyone at the palace worried!Your mother,brother,the people.Everyone!Abby."

  She rolled her eyes and snatched her hands off me,moving into the sitting room."Like they care.Like any of you truly care."