A quick call to my mother’s office confirmed that we were on for dinner at her house, which lay outside of town south of the Admin Complex. Minerva would come get us at seven o’clock, giving us enough time to go by the cabin and get cleaned up. Micah picked us up at the hospital, handed me a bag of clothes, and sized me up. All right, it was mutual. I could definitely see the resemblance, but he looked like he had more fun. The wink he gave me when he dropped us off at the cabin where Reine was staying irritated me. Did he think we were going to just throw each other’s clothes off and f**k like wild animals? I rubbed my eyes. The thought had come through in my thought-voice, not that of my inner gargoyle, but I knew he was in there, and that the integration wasn’t going as smoothly as I’d

