She hesitated. “Sure. They weren’t that scary, actually. One of them was almost nice.”
His tone flat, he repeated, “‘Nice.’”
“Okay, not nice nice, but…anyway, I’m fine. Of course they gave me the standard line about not leaving town. Stupid. I mean, where would I even go? I’ve had a few days to get my head together, and I need to get back to work tomorrow.”
He and Kara didn’t have the sort of relationship where he could feel comfortable asking about what she’d done with those few days. Besides, thanks to the intelligence he’d gotten from Felicia Martinez, it was pretty clear what Kara had been doing with at least part of that time. He really didn’t want to think about that, though.
She added, in an overly cheerful tone of voice that was probably intended to reassure him but in fact did
