"I'm glad that I can rely on you, Lord Loghlan," Ashlynn said, giving the older man a smile filled with genuine relief. "There are a few other things I could use help with as well, if you don't mind me borrowing a few more people from your retinue," she said.
"Speak the words, Lady Ashlynn," Loghlan said easily as he sipped his mulled wine. "Thus far, the hardest thing you've asked me to do is to smuggle you and your people into Lothian City. My people may not be as capable as yours," he said delicately.
"But what we lack in quality we can make up for in quantity," the baron said. "If you need guards and lookouts for Master Isabell while she sets her traps on the route, agitators in the crowd, men to create a distraction while you enter Lothian Manor," he said, ticking off options on his fingers as he thought of ways he could be of use to Lady Ashlynn's plans.
