By the time Arik returned, Liam had paced the length of the sitting room often enough to know there were thirty-two steps between the fireplace and the tall eastern windows.
He still could not remember what the room was officially called.
The palace had too many sitting rooms, drawing rooms, private salons, morning rooms, evening rooms, receiving rooms, and apparently several rooms whose only meaningful distinction was which direction the windows faced. Liam had eventually solved the problem by referring to this one as the usual living room, because it was the place he and Arik actually used when neither of them wanted to be imperial.
It had accumulated evidence of that over the past months.
