"Do I have a choice?" she said but she was smiling warmly at them. Idiots though they might be sometimes they were her brothers and she loved them.
Only question was where to put them. There was the flat above the Lamb of course but Conn was there. Well.... sometimes. He was spending more and more time at her place in the Manor.
Cook yelled through the window and she grabbed the stew and sat a bowl down in front of each of them.
"Eat up boys," she said. "Need to talk to Conn for a minute."
Grabbing Connor's hand she pulled him out of earshot.