"Then prove your worth," show my damned children, he thought, how to act like a normal damned human. And his wife too. He regretted marrying that bitch, but not the children she bore him. Not even Magnus. "Pearl, go and fetch Robert."

She nodded and went to do as he bid her.

First she asked one of the servants if he was even in the house, and when the servant shrugged and went on with her work, Pearl dreaded this moment. Eventually, she found his bedroom door and rapped.