The Failed Charade

It was just a pity she wasn't very smart.

Giselle found pride in scaring the wide-eyed child.

"Why are you still sitting around? Weren't you going to tell on me? Go on!"

"I'm going…" Ronan puffed up, scrambled to the landline in the kitchen, and patched the call to Kaelen's study.

"Daddy, I'm in the kitchen! Save me!"

Ronan played up his misery on the call and yammered on before hanging up the pho