Slipping Away

A blond, blue-eyed man waved Lachlan's phone teasingly and joked in a crisp London accent, "Lachlan, your phone's ringing, it's from your home country. Could it be your sweetheart missing you already?"

Lachlan took the phone, saw it was Edna calling, and explained to him, "It's just our housekeeper."

The dashing foreigner before him was Conor Gallagher, scion of the prestigious Gallagher family in