His accent reminded her of home. Weirdly enough, California, not Notting Hill. Although both Diana and Selene had traded in their old accents, Artemis somehow managed to hold onto hers. He sounded like their little sister. Just throw in a few nonsense lines from Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll and it would be like being back in the mansion.

Maybe. Or maybe Diana was just grasping at some very desperate straws.

God, she missed her family. So much more now than ever. Decades had separated them. Compared to that, six months was almost nothing. But they had been the hardest six months in Diana's whole life.

And it had been a long life, so far.

Nevertheless, she smiled through the pain. "Not the worst kidnapping I've ever experienced," she said.