Chapter 98

"An audit? You've come all the way here just to look at paperwork?"

Back in my seventh-floor room, Janice all but forced me down onto the sofa when I tried to rest. She planted her hands on her hips, clearly bracing herself to deliver a lecture.

"The audit was just something I tossed out there. I can't actually audit anything until they hand over the documents."

Unless I'd brought an entire audit team with me, there was no way I could go digging through every record myself. Which meant the audit couldn't even begin until Count Lincol's side actually delivered the paperwork.

"So you're saying you'll do it the moment they hand it over! My lady, you've slept away from home twenty-one nights straight! Seventeen of those in a moving carriage! You've eaten sixty meals that would make Chef Cooker faint on the spot, gone without a proper dessert for…