Chapter 44
Drowned Ants
The Secret Service reserve rooms for the Wong and Cortez families to stay at the Lancelot Court Hotel, where None and MJ stayed before moving into Blair House. None repurposes the conference room at the hotel from speed dating into a family room. Catered Mexican and Chinese food cover two tables.
Inauguration festivities begin early tomorrow morning. None and MJ celebrate their last night as private citizens with their families. Lan and Mrs. Wong arrive first.
Shen embraces Lan tightly. The two of them may be strangers for a while, as Lan winds down the real estate business in L.A.
MJ’s parents and two younger brothers come from Texas. The Wong and Cortez families were neighbors until MJ’s family moved to Texas twenty years ago to start a restaurant with her Un
