“May I ask how your ward . . .” “Madeline,” he said her first name and nothing more. No surname. Just . . . Madeline. “Madeline,” Leah repeated, slowly. “May . . . may I ask how she came into your care?” Fox’s face instantly shuttered, dark curtains falling over his visage. “I do not discuss Madeline’s past. Suffice it to say, she is motherless and under my protection.”
