Of course, Raphael was staying around. Maybe he had orders from the Assembly to make sure the Reptilians didn’t try any more funny stuff, but he also had a very strong reason to be hanging out in our solar system for as long as possible.
That reason being me.
But damn it, there I was, thinking about him again. I drank some more water and did my very best to look only mildly curious. Too bad I really wasn’t fooling anyone.
“There it was again,” my mother said.
It wasn’t really good etiquette to call your mother crazy — especially when she was right. About the best I could do was try to get myself out of there.
“Um…Taryn texted me while I was driving home. I’d better go see what she wanted.” Horrible excuse, but it was about the best thing I could think of right then.
“It can wait.” If
