Several thoughts in mind. Last time she had had several thoughts in mind, Zechariah had ended up blackmailed into an engagement. He kept his expression carefully polite – the same expression he used with his clients.

“Of course,” Zechariah said. “You are, after all, my soon to be wife and mother of my child.”

Eugh. Uriel was right to be mortified. This woman was just one disaster surprise after another. A female Menachem, minus the murder charges … thus far. Was she going to be somersaulting in and out of blackmail, now? It was rather late for a change of mind.

“Tell me more, please,” he answered politely, nonetheless.

Had she killed someone? Other than Carrington? No one cared who actually killed Carrington, so long as he stayed dead.