Regulus frowned slightly, unsure of what Aurora was doing until they moved away from cluster of gossipers and he realized what had happened. They earned a sharp look as he turned from them, following Aurora and Carina to look at the hair ornaments. "Aren't they lovely?" He asked softly, giving Aurora a thankful look. He wanted to say thank you, to mouthe it so that Carina wouldn't see and question what was going on, but she didn't meet his eyes, an action that made him more curious than ever as to what was going on.

He nodded to the window. "Perhaps we'll come back later and pick out a few of them for you and a few for Allyssa, would you like that, sweetheart?" He frowned, looking down at her. She didn't deserve this, none of it. She didn't deserve to lose her mother, to be forced to help him carry on this double life, to have people gossiping about her. She was an angel, she always had been, HIS little angel, and to think of someone saying something horrible about her when the fault had been no one but that damned gossiping woman's...well it infuriated him.