CHAPTER 10STARTING THE DAY WITH A meeting was becoming a regular thing. When James and Matt came into Anais’s lab the next morning at 0754, they found a couple of surprises: namely the nuns, Carmela and Pearl, looking exhausted and years older than they had when Matt had left them in Idaho last month.
“When did you get here?” Matt asked, hugging Pearl. Carmela offered him her hand. Matt shook it while James hugged Pearl too.
“Late last night,” Carmela barked cheerfully. “Quite the little escapade, getting out of Idaho. Borders were sealed up tighter than a nun’s snatch on Beltane.” She guffawed at her joke. So did Anais, while Pearl rolled her eyes affectionately.
Matt had forgotten about Carmela’s… eccentricities. How she’d passed as a nun for the last few years was hard to imagine.
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